Busy getting ready for a trip, and maybe I will have something to say later.
Provided the damned site works.
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4tehlulz
If you say something, that increases the risk of GOS attack.
Zifnab
John’s site is up again? This can only be good for McCain!
oh really
Cole, will you quit complaining about the site. Geez, man, it works a good 10% of the time. Okay, maybe 8%. I mean, just because it works poorly when it isn’t completely non-functional is no reason to complain.
Take a lesson from Palin — pretend.
sparky
My favorite glitch so far: the one where just the header displays. Yeah baby!
On another note: the GOP has apparently gotten a collection of concern trolls together to seed websites with talking points. if you must feed them (which is their goal) how about just pasting the refutations for Palin’s lies?
engaging in the construction of a narrative is the GOP goal–a distraction. don’t fall for it.
Jake
I just watched the Palin speech from last night.
My response: I sent another $100 to the Obama campaign.
wasabi gasp
According to lots of commentary this morning, Sarah Palin hit it out of the park. I can’t agree. Yes, she hits the speech hard. But she dislocated her shoulder throwing the bat concussing the catcher while cracking a pop fly after some Bushies shot her ass full of steroids.
matt
Cris
From David Plouffe’s email late last night, responding to yesterday’s recurring convention theme of belittling Obama’s community service:
Which reminded me, I’ve been wishing for several elections that the Democrats would once and for all claim as their own the phrase that the Republicans keep using against them.
If any party has a track record of utter contempt for the public and total subservience to authority, it’s the GOP. They have no right to that line. Let’s turn it against them.
libarbarian
Watching the convention, when the kids were on camera, I totally wanted to cover for Levi and yell “Run!! Run!! Run for your life and freedom young man!”
He would have totally booked it!!
Darkness
I’m really hoping that the early predictions that the campaign would deep six her right away make them seriously dig their heels in against doing so. The thought makes me hum happily.
mmmm mmmm mmmmmmmmmm
w vincentz
I’m not trying to sell anything, nor am I a computer whiz, but I’ve been to some bullitin boards that use vBadvanced and vBulletin (various versions). WordPress usually hates me, and I’ve never done anything to that bitch to be snubbed so often.
Cris
vBulletin is forum software. It’s not very well-suited to the blog format.
Darkness
Sorry, more unsolicited database advice forthcoming…
One, take the mysql server down, backup the files to another drive and run the anal retentive repair on them. If that reports some good fixes, that might solve it.
Two, turn processing time logging on for Apache and turn logging on for mysql. (DO NOT leave the mysql logging on indefinitely, it will eat the drive) Examine the logs to figure out what queries/pages of the site are choking mysql. Either optimize the tables, the queries (using the “explain” command in mysql), or ditch some archival data. If you ditch some archival data, be sure to reoptimize the tables, otherwise it won’t do any good for performance.
kate r
I have nothing to say but feel that the time to say it is now, when it’s possible to post on your damn site. So I blame you and your blog for making me look stooopid.
Yo. Maybe someone can explain why people keep talking “red-meat” when they discuss Palin. Has it anything to do with the “Rouge Cru” company she founded just in case the political schtick didn’t work out for her?
Ripley
Every time I access Balloon Juice, a kitten gets its wings.
The National Enquirer is getting ready to publish a story claiming that John McCain may have been a POW. Our world will never be the same.
Ripley
kate, “red meat” is just a general expression for serving up the most obvious platitudes to fire up your political base. In Palin’s case: taxes, dirty liberals, big gov’t, elite Democrats, etc.
PaulW
Guys. I work as a librarian, and I’m working on something called Lib Guides where one of the pages is How To Create a Blog. I had listed WordPress as one of the sites that people could sign up with.
Given the problems I’ve been seeing the last two weeks just even getting to Balloon Juice? I’m taking them off the list. Sheesh.
BH-Buck
WordPress isn’t the problem here. Balloon-Juice obviously resides on a server with other database-intensive sites. Blue Herald went through the exact same problem while it resided on a StartLogic server. We have since moved to HostGator and our database connection issues are gone (for now anyways).
Balloon-Juice probably gets way to many hits to reside on a shared server. May be time to step up to the next (and more expensive) level, John. :-(
edmund dantes
I think the problem is John has placed himself in the eyesights of the GOS, and other large scale distributors of liberal evil.
Might I suggest spending more of your George Soro’s money on server and database upgrades and less on your other “hobbies”. You might as well put your liberal blood money to good use.
:-D
Cris
Darkness, I’ll bet you eleven bucks a month that John doesn’t have the level of server access necessary to do what you’re talking about. He can do whatever cPanel lets him do, plus whatever customer service is willing to do.
jnfr
I’ll be sending more money tomorrow myself, and I suspect my husband will make a donation of his own.
Even more importantly, we’ve connected with the Obama organizer for our neighborhood and will be spending time to organizational and GOTV work.
Don’t mourn, organize!
Doug H. (Fausto no more)
She has the base raving ‘BESTEST SPEECH EVAR’, so she has that going for her, which is nice.
BH-Buck
Darkness @ 19:31am gave some really good advice. Optimizing your database tables can help a lot!
cleek
WordPress. Is. Not. The. Problem.
more than half of the top 10 blogs in the world (according to TruthLaidBear) are using WP. it is perfectly capable of handling a blog like BJ.
Zifnab
Nonsense. Weren’t they just ranting and raving a few months back about how pretty speeches and fiery rhetoric were the signs of a bad leader who has no content to character and all the ethical foundations of a modern day cult leader?
The base should be raving about the worst speech ever, because that will prove she’s got the chops to lead our nation.
NonWonderDog
O/T: Pam over at Pandagon noticed something… (scroll down)
A pictuar ist vorth eintausend vords.
AkaDad
Q. What does Mother Theresa, Ghandi, MLK, and Obama have in common?
A. They were all community organizers.
zzyzx
I posted this to GOS but I’m peeved this morning so I’ll put it here too.
If you’re like me, you found yesterday’s RNC to be one of the most depressing political theaters ever. An entire party joined together to say that we don’t stand for anything other than attacks on our opponents. It was a deeply cynical day, one where 8 years of George Bush government was described as liberal, where the VP pick could promote her opposition to a bridge that she campaigned on, where “change” was defined as having different people do the exact same thing. Other than drilling for oil, tax cuts, and Iraq, no policies at all were mentioned. Instead it was attack, attack, attack on Obama, not on issues but on his personal history. As if that weren’t bad enough, the ultimate mockery was made on those who work long hours for low pay to help out the less fortunate. The Republicans don’t stand for only helping the rich; they just think that the government shouldn’t help those who need it and we should mock the private citizens who want to help. Sure it angered us, but by staying away from issues, the Republicans left us an opening. There’s one question that can be asked that would destroy their bounce. It’s above ground, not cheap, strictly on the issues.
This is my call for all reporters in the next few days. Have a Republican guest on your show? Ask them this. “You say that John McCain represents real change. Name one issue where a McCain administration would differ from the current one.”
I spent an hour trying to think of one example where they differed and I couldn’t. Last night’s convention was a call for four more years; they just couldn’t say the words. Ask that question and people will either change the subject or stammer to an answer. It’s simple enough that it’s hard to stonewall around it without making it obvious.
This could be the question that launched a million ads. Saying McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time is one thing, having McCain supporters being unable to come up with a simple example of where they differ on policy would be more powerful. The Republicans are making their case on personalities. Let’s force them to stick to the issues.
“Name one issue where a McCain administration would differ from the Bush administration.” Spread this around.
PeterJ
The banana dominatrix’s outfit, a mere $300,000.
That’s not elitist. At all.
Banana dominatrix, I do hope that that one, from a comment, will stick.
Calliope
Wow, they are really are scrubbing the internet on Palin. The 2006 Eagle Forum Questionaire page, the one with the amazing Pledge quote, no longer exists.
It’s still available on archive.org. Save it while you can.
The link button and I are not on speaking terms, dammit. I haven’t slept for 24 hours, so I’m a little wonky.
Dreggas
Wow…yeah that picture is good. Reminds me of what I was thinking after that speech.
Cris
PeterJ, I’ll quote another commenter from another site:
gil mann
Do people really not understand the point of the “community organizer” dig?
It means “black troublemaker.”
My dog’s ears bled during that speech.
binzinerator
They don’t need to stand for anything. And that’s good enough for them.
Sullivan hit the nail on the head when he called them the Pavlov Party:
cleek
for example
Charity
Mwa ha ha ha. I’m waiting till tonight.
I wish the Obama/Biden website would let you dedicate donations to people. How brilliant would it be to collect a million dollars “with love from John & Sarah”?
Equal Opportunity Cynic
Guys. I work as a librarian, and I’m working on something called Lib Guides where one of the pages is How To Create a Blog. I had listed WordPress as one of the sites that people could sign up with.
Given the problems I’ve been seeing the last two weeks just even getting to Balloon Juice? I’m taking them off the list. Sheesh.
I’m not sure you should be giving advice if you can’t tell the difference between the blog package not working and the blog package complaining about the db not working.
Sorry if that’s snooty, but I’m getting tired of people not knowing what they’re talking about.
Punchy
If McCane were to decide to flip his ticket, giving Palin the #1 spot, can this legally be done?
w vincentz
Seems to me that by going after the “media”, this steath fightin’ bitch has set herself up for a REAL dogfight.
Be warned, Sarah that cut special education services, there will be no mercy now.
Ya bit first, get ready to get bitten back, bitch.
I’m looking for the lict of banned books that you fired the librarian over. (I can’t wait to read them!).
The librarian is sharpening her ax as we speak. Remember goevernor-she-(dog), ya bit her first in Wasilla?
She’s been waiting for quite a while to bite you back in that lustful ass that McLuster admires so much.
Feel the pain, sweetie, the bitch pit bulls are ready for the dog fight.
Did Bristol get the gift that Jaimie lynne Spears sent her yet?
wasabi gasp
Why does the stock market hate Hockey Moms?
Incertus
On a completely unrelated note, the St. Paul authorities are deciding whether or not to charge the Democracy Now! producers. I have contact information at my place, and Democracy Now! is asking that anyone who emails cc them on it, so they can have paper copies as well.
Calouste
That’s because at the top of the Republican party everyone has money, but hardly anyone is intelligent or has accomplished something. The current candidate and president are prime examples.
PeterJ
I guess he could step down, she would become the candidate and then she could pick him as VP.
Or they could you off him and pick his wife as VP.
I think it’s too late to change the names on the ballots though.
Bubblegum Tate
According to the prefab reactions (written just after the prefab speech had been written, possibly updated when the speech was changed to make it less “masculine”), Sarah Palin is the new Reagan.
Um…not that they’re overreaching or anything.
w vincentz
@ Incertus,
If you go over to commondreams.org, you can read Amy Goodman’s account.
Chilling!
Welcome to gestapo-merica, my friends.
rawshark
And city-slicker busybody asshole.
Kevin
Then why are you hanging around here?
NonyNony
PeterJ
Well, to be “fair” the article does point out that $280,000 worth of that $300,000 are the pair of diamond earrings that she is wearing with it. So there’s that.
($280,000 for a pair of earrings. Jeebus.)
Barb
I usually don