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Yeah, That Sucked

by John Cole|  August 25, 20084:41 pm| 32 Comments

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The website down all day. Go word press.

I will work on it this week.

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  1. 1.

    BFR

    August 25, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    Damn LIEbrul hackers!!!

  2. 2.

    Ninerdave

    August 25, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    Website was never down when you were a Republican. This is yet more proof that liberals like you can’t lead and will bring down the great United States of America

  3. 3.

    jake

    August 25, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Feed the hamsters.

  4. 4.

    d0n Camillo

    August 25, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    This site’s been going down more often than David Gregory at a McCain barbecue. What a way to start the week.

  5. 5.

    Delia

    August 25, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    You’re here? You’re really here? Frack. You get me hooked on this website and then you go all WordPress on me. And just when the Dem Convention is starting.

  6. 6.

    Teak111

    August 25, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Well, if your really desperate, there is always Google cache. Not the very latest, but the links work if BJ is your jumping off point.

  7. 7.

    Noah

    August 25, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    John McCain must pick Katie Levinson as his VP!

  8. 8.

    mantis

    August 25, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Ok, this is ridiculous. Aren’t you sick of WordPress yet? Want some free assistance getting set up on a different CMS? Let teh mantis help.

    p.s. Your email doesn’t work either.

  9. 9.

    nightjar

    August 25, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Just sent a hammer thru the tubes. Fix it right up!

  10. 10.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    August 25, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    The Hillagers are out on Hardball. If the rest of them are half as crazy as the blonde woman with the alleged congressional investigation in hand, then I think it might be good to shine the bright lights on teh crazy.

  11. 11.

    montysano

    August 25, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    So: was Friday’s Obama/Bayh bumpersticker story a GOP ratfucking scheme?

  12. 12.

    zzyzx

    August 25, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    Yeah that Hardball segment was AMAZING. “You can tell insanity when you see it.”

  13. 13.

    Laura W

    August 25, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    What Delia said!
    I’ve had so many (insignificant) things on my (muddled) mind all day and no access to “My Friends”. I’ll condense to 3:

    Things I am wondering today:

    1) If John Edwards’ “political career is over”, how come Bill Blow-Me-in-the-Big-House Clinton gets to speak at the convention, let alone claim SLAP IN THE FACE over perceived, delusional slights?

    2) How informed, smart and articulate is Luke Russert? Everyone blathers about their kids, warranted or not, but until Tim died, I had no idea he was actually underselling his son. There’s a good legacy.

    3) Who was that boring and banal man sitting in for Tom Brokaw on MTP last Sunday asking all those silly, silly questions?

  14. 14.

    Dreggas

    August 25, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    Heh, Tweetie just pwned some dumbass going on about Obama “going to a muslim school” LOL.

  15. 15.

    Jorge

    August 25, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Ok – I’m sorry to use this word, but I’m sick and tired of how big of pU$$!&s liberals are. Our guy has led John McCain in the polls every day for almost 5 months. Have there been ups and downs? Yes. But John McCain has not led in the poll of polls since April 15.

    Every answer to every question that is about the horse race and why Obama isn’t doing better should be, “Senator Obama has led John McCain in the polls every day since April 15. You should be asking the McCain campaign these questions.”

    Seriously, the Republicans are running a friggin war hero with a Q rating through the roof and they can’t break 45% in the poll of polls. Friggin grow a pair, libs.

  16. 16.

    Laura W

    August 25, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    Things I am wondering today:

    4)Would it kill our wondergirl, Rachel, to wear some color above the waist? ONCE?

    I moved here from CO and never has EST tv scheduling sucked so much.

  17. 17.

    Zifnab

    August 25, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    Heh, Tweetie just pwned some dumbass going on about Obama “going to a muslim school” LOL.

    I heard he broke off his McCain Mancrush and has decided to start dry humping someone else’s leg for a change.

  18. 18.

    maxbaer (not the original)

    August 25, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    Oh, was it down? I thought my pilot light was out.

  19. 19.

    mark

    August 25, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Something’s gotta change. “Failblog” is taken.

  20. 20.

    Cris

    August 25, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    Once again, and I know we keep saying this over and over, it’s not WordPress that sucks, it’s your host that sucks. We see a WordPress error because WordPress is working, but the connection to your MySql database isn’t. Do not blame WordPress for being the last man standing.

  21. 21.

    Equal Opportunity Cynic

    August 25, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    As Cleek pointed out to me on our offloaded sidebar conversation, two of the busiest four blogs in the ‘sphere are running WordPress. So it’s pretty unlikely the problem is the scalability of WP per se, as opposed to say the DB configuration.

  22. 22.

    Equal Opportunity Cynic

    August 25, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Then again, teh mantis’s rates (above) are hard to pass up, so maybe you really should get another CMS installed — which will then fail equally as dramatically, because virtually no modern CMS is going to work if the underlying database isn’t accessible.

    Maybe there’s some flat-file-based CMS you should consider…. :)

  23. 23.

    Michael D.

    August 25, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    it’s not WordPress that sucks, it’s your host that sucks. We see a WordPress error because WordPress is working

    Exactly. There are a number of site with far more traffic than BJ who use WP without problems.

  24. 24.

    Michael D.

    August 25, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    You could just post everything in Notepad.

  25. 25.

    Busta

    August 25, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Say….

    Did you know John McCain was a POW?

  26. 26.

    wasabi gasp

    August 25, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    O fine sur of the juixy balloon please fdenounce and reject yer webhosr. I typinf as fast as i can befor the portal fo juixe close up agaim.

  27. 27.

    Darkness

    August 25, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    I will work on it this week.

    No no no. My personal productivity is suddenly WAY up and I have some other shit to get done.

  28. 28.

    w vincentz

    August 25, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    as Wasabi said above. Seems to me that with wordpress coming up so many times, it gave me time to think and drink, then drink and think, then drink a bit more.
    Thanks for the day off.
    Insightful comments ahead.
    +375

  29. 29.

    mantis

    August 25, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    So what’s stopping John from switching hosting providers?

  30. 30.

    nightjar

    August 25, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    I will work on it this week.

    Blog at BJ and you will patience Grasshopper!

  31. 31.

    nightjar

    August 25, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    I will work on it this week.

    Blog at BJ and you will learn patience Grasshopper!

  32. 32.

    LiberalTarian

    August 26, 2008 at 12:08 am

    Gawdamn John. I got a blank page most of the day for your site. Yeah, I know, I probably shouldn’t comment at all since I am kind of a MT moonbat, but I do lurk often.

    Thankfully, while I was watching the amazing Phoebe Snow perform this evening (she is funny, she sings like a bird and damn, how come we don’t get artists like her any more??) you fixed it. Or it fixed itself. Or something. I was dying to see what you had to say about the convention. Where I wish I was. Sigh.

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