A new record- 5300 comments in the spam filter.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
“woke” is the new caravan.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.
We still have time to mess this up!
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
Nothing worth doing is easy.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.
You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.
Let’s finish the job.
After roe, women are no longer free.
We are aware of all internet traditions.
Peak wingnut was a lie.
T R E 4 5 O N
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
This really is a full service blog.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
Not all heroes wear capes.
It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.
“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”
This blog will pay for itself.
Jake
This could be HUGE.
In other words, John McCain can suck it.
E Stamm
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4tehlulz
Not over 9000. Fail
Cap and Gown
Obama will probably win in November.
Heath Ledger will definitely be nominated for an Oscar. Probably win too. Excellent performance!
ThymeZone
For a minute there, I thought maybe lukasiak was posting again.
Considering that the old nutcase is already (several years, IIRC) on record as saying that if the Iraqi government asks us to leave, we will have to leave …. yeah, he can suck it.
Brachiator
Since this is a weekend news story, it will be interesting to see whether the Bush Administration ignores this entirely, scrambles to emphasize their own negotiations over this issue, or sends out hints that al-Maliki is unreliable.
I also wonder whether the pundit shows this weekend will pick up on this, pretend it never happened, or find a way to insinuate that nothing that al-Maliki says is meaningful unless John McCain finds it acceptable.
Interesting. I just heard a news report that Obama has arrived in Afghanistan.
Let the news games begin.
BTW, in regard to recent threads about global warming, the current issue of Skeptic Magazine has a great series of articles about the subject, fair and non-technical, but pretty thorough.
Particularly interesting is a critique of the problems in using hydrogen as an energy alternative (incredibly expensive and incredibly inefficient). Information about this issue can be found here (How We Know Global Warming is Real)
John Cole
Wrong. This will be spun as a victory for Mccain, because if he did not have the courage to call for the surge and win this war, no one would be able to call for a withdrawal.
Wanna bet? Watch.
Now, as to what the fuck we actually won, well, I don’t know. but there you have it.
PeterJ
No, but he’s posting over at TalkLeft.
BTD had this to say about him:
Where will P.Lunatic find someone that likes him?
TR
Sadly, that’ll likely be the case. The media has already started parroting the Republican argument that the surge has succeeded, even though the whole point was political progress that hasn’t happened, and we’re leaving in place more troops than we had when we began it.
But never mind all that. John McCain has foreign policy cred, and his ribs are delicious!
John Cole
Does anyone really care what Lukasiak thinks?
Jake
I caught Amos Lee on NPR this morning. He sounded really, really good. I’m thinking about picking up his new album.
AkaDad
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki doesn’t understand Iraq like McCain does.
I decided to finish watching season 3 of BSG. It looks like the writers were frakin with my head. My rant last night was a case of premature aggravation.
ThymeZone
Maybe, but if you watch the polls, you can see that the public is tuning this stuff out. McCain’s numbers are in steady decline in most states.
The surge is working, my friends. It’s working.
Not the one in Iraq, the one in Pennsylvania.
jake
Fixed.
What’s that you say? al-Maliki isn’t a terrorist? He will be if he keeps pushing for a date certain. The 911th Frightened Keyboardists are either convincing themselves Bush is a terrorist for discussing a pull out, or Bush’s plan to pull out is different from Obama’s plan to pull out because … um … Bush isn’t a secret Muslim.
Notorious P.A.T.
We won the right to stay in Iraq for 100 years.
But only if they ask us in writing on the proper kind of paper.
Dennis - SGMM
If al-Maliki keeps this up he will fall victim to “al-Qaeda” long before Iraq’s October elections.
maxbaer (not the original)
Looks like Bush is going to have to throw al-Maliki under the bus. Do they have any buses in Iraq that haven’t been used for IEDs?
phoebes in santa fe
“A new record- 5300 comments in the spam filter.”
John, I’m just curious. Is that 5300 in a day, week, or month?
And how does your spam filter work? On the basis of words or specific edresses?
TIA
Mark Gisleson
I had to shut down my original site, gisleson.com, when the server farm hosting my database got hit by 39,000 referral spam IN ONE DAY.
Nearly half the traffic to my old blog, Norwegianity, was referral spam and other crap.
Congress refuses to do anything meaningful about spam, yet the ONLY organization defending spam is the Direct Marketing Association who fought against even the anemic CanSpam crap.
Michael D.
Viagra, Soma, Cialis, Teen sex pics, etc.
Michael D.
And, I can approve my own comments!!!
protected static
Are you using Askimet? Since finding and enabling the option to have Askimet automatically delete any spam left on posts that are over 30 days old, I almost never have to clean out the spam queue.
Admittedly, my own blog’s traffic is next to nonexistent – but on Carnacki’s Mystery of the Haunted Vampire, we’ve also seen our spam queue shrink to almost nothing.
Michael D.
On my old blog, I had a plug-in that used to disallow comments on posts more than 30 days old, unless I overrode it. But that was a MoveableType blog, so I don’t know if there is one for WP.
protected static
There probably is such a plugin – it’s definitely not core WP behavior. But since most spam winds up targeting posts more than 30 days old, and since Askimet (so far, at least) has had such a low false-positive rate, turning that auto-delete on has allowed us to keep comments on old posts open.
More often than not, old posts attract random hit-and-run comments – and usually borderline psychotic or illiterate ones at that – but every now and then, they generate a new discussion, provide an idea for a new post, or provide an interesting update on a old news item we’d blogged about.
Incertus
No Quarter? They’re still on about the birth certificate crap, after all.
Tim in SF
John, I put a captcha plugin on my WordPress blog. It worked like a charm. Not a single spam has gotten through since then, and users only have one extra step to post – solve the little image puzzle. Not to bad.
Take a look at it in action: http://blog.hisnameistimmy.com/?p=12
Gary D
Reminds me of my yahoo email account. 9000+ in that 30-day spam filter and almost 50 a day it doesn’t catch. Thank blog for gmail.
Corner Stone
JJC says –
Well PeterJ must as he’s posted the exact same useless comment in at least two threads. That makes him almost as much of a loser as Conservatively Liberal. Wait a second, that’s unpossible! No one could combine the strengths of losertude and sheer stupidity the way CL does so consistently.
Conservatively Liberal
Facts have a way of making people like you angry, eh? Go figure.