What do you all think of adding this?
Apparently the bailout passed with a great deal of support, 263-171. What I would like someone to do is to ask those who voted no the other day what changed to make them vote yes today.
Also, as soon as I figure out how to publish to Kindle, I will.
*** Update ***
Screw it, I added it. You can find it in the lower right sidebar by the RSS feeds. I will give it a week.
Juan del Llano
Oooh, which plug-in is that???
James Hare
Sounds all right to me; however, it seems like it would be more useful to folks like Yglesias — the grammar and spelling here aren’t as bad as some places…
Scott H
Apparently, Congressional legislation is like country cookin’ — it just ain’t right until you throw some pork into it.
GooseGrade? Meh.
protected static
Eliminate spelling, grammar, and factual errors? Does it still count as blogging without those things?
tripletee (formerly tBone)
Clearly we haven’t been bitching and nitpicking enough lately if you’re actually considering a plugin that invites bitching and nitpicking.
And while we’re on the subject of bitching and nitpicking, please consider disabling the iPhone-specific part of the mobile plugin. We hates it, precious. We hates it so much.
Matt
Obviously it was the successful lobbying by Big Wooden Arrow.
TheFountainHead
Don’t eliminate the iPhone part of the mobile plugin…just fix it.
What are you, Republican?
Charity
A few dozen angry calls from their constituents who saw the Dow drop on Monday and freaked the fuck out, I reckon.
Dennis - SGMM
Does this mean that the Bridge to Nowhere is on again?
Billy K(hrushchev)
Sounds dumb. I mean GooseGrade, not the bailout. Or maybe both.
But then, I would like to see all spel chckrs iliminated. I like to see how dumb people truly are*. Plus, I would immediately look smarter than 99% of the internet.
*Sorry, bad spellers, but spelling and grammar really are a good way to get a quick read of someone’s intelligence.
Bill H
You are seriously insane, aren’t you. With this bunch of commenters you would actually add something like that? These people would go completely nuts. Well, nutser.
Svensker
They don’t wanna git blamed when the economy tanks, doncha know.
Re the Goose — so will it automatically get rid of spelling errors, etc. ? Then how would we mock Saree and the wingnuts, hunh?
Is it just me, or is the typing speed on this new version real slow?
Jay C
Instead of adding another plug-in, how about getting the current ones to work better?
I had all sorts of choice snark to add to the "Big Trouble in Little Sitka"
other thread, – but everything after #126 seems to vanish into a black hole (literally).
Oh well, snark can wait: Sarah Palin won’t be getting any smarter in the time it takes to fix the thread….
Noah
What do you get when you add up those numbers? 263-171
2+6+3= 11.
1+7+1=9.
11 and 9?
9 and 11?
9/11?
Rudy Giuliani has just saved us all.
Dennis - SGMM
As a Joe sixpak u.s. Amercan myself I resint what your sayin. Your dumb anyway my grammar was taken by the Lord years ago so you coudnt tell nothing about me by her.
Mcain/Paling 08!
Comrade Nikolita
I heard they threw in an extra $100 or $150 billion dollars (I heard two accounts and I don’t know which is right) in perks for someone (Wall Street? Congress? Senators?) and that’s why many people switched to vote yes.
smiley
I get that in Firefox but not in IE. Try IE.
Bill H
That’s how John deals with the fact that WordPress Error no longer works. It used to keep casual comments out, but now every jackass (like me) with a keyboard can add comments, so the black hole appears after a while to replace WordPress Error and set limits on the number of comments.
Comrade ellie
I read a thread on DU that said House members who didn’t vote for the bill were told that Martial Law would be declared on Americans after the Dow dropped a thousand points because the bill didn’t pass. There was even a video!
So they were threatened.
tripletee (formerly tBone)
Disable it until it’s fixed, then. Mobile sites that don’t allow you to load the full site if desired drive me fucking nuts.
Grumpy Code Monkey
In decreasing order of likelihood:
1. A generous helping of lard;
2. Nancy wasn’t so much of a bitch this time around;
3. The Governator just warned the US Treasury that CA may be hitting them up for a loan soon because their usual sources of credit have dried up, prompting a collective "oh shit" moment as the magnitude of the credit crisis suddenly becomes clear;
4. Palin offered to pose in a bikini if they would change their vote;
5. McCain offered Cindy to pose in a bikini if they would change their vote;
6. McCain threatened to pose in a bikini unless they changed their vote.
liberal
I’d be interested in a discussion of the fact that the House R’s voted overall slightly against the bailout, whereas the House D’s voted strongly in favor of it.
Punchy
U kant put a sp3ll (heck on diz 6log cuz r 4chan-eskah sp3llinks will crush 7h3 s0f7war3.
Davebo
Tax cuts!
Because when your running a half trillion dollar deficit and authorizing the expenditure of an additional 3/4 trillion it would be irresponsible to enact it without more cowbell… err.. I mean tax cuts.
Comrade Fedorovich Stuck
Agweed, we mental giannts would bgin to look avrage much. No to gosse grad. Purty gurls on sidebar good tho.
The Other Steve
Big Trouble in West Virginia!
Apparently a coal mine allowed the NRA onto their facilities to try to film coal workers making negative statements against Obama.
The coal workers took a day off in protest.
Glenn
700 billion down a black hole for what?
Dennis - SGMM
President Bush has just announced that he’ll be a taking a vacation at the Bush compound in Paraguay to relax after averting the nation’s financial crisis. Accompanying Bush will be Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and an unspecified number of palletized bundles of U.S. Currency. "I’m taking the cash along for safekeeping," Paulson was quoted as saying, "But, don’t worry America’s check is in the mail."
JGabriel
John Cole:
You’re kidding, right?
I mean, you know what your readers are like. They’ll turn each post into a contest to see how quickly they can get it rated to 0.
.
Punchy
Racist.
Annette
Someone with an iPhone please test reading, commenting, etc. Thanks.
JimPortlandOR
It’s the content, stupid! (recycled truth, not commentary on the blog).
Since this isn’t an English composition blog, why turn it into one?
Goosegrade: not so much. actually, sucks.
NonyNony
My guess is that the incredibly bad press that the House got for their antics on Monday did the trick. The House was portrayed as a bunch of whiny babies. Especially the GOP caucus – who came out looking like a group of people who would angrily do something completely irresponsible because Nancy Pelosi called them a mean name.
The thrashing the House took – along with the "cover" of the Senate passing the bill first – was probably enough to shift the votes of a lot of folks who actually consider themselves "responsible people". Probably didn’t help much that in addition to the "she called me bad names" hissy fit, the Republicans also got a lot of flack for their obvious tactic of getting the Dems to vote for the bill and then campaign against the Dems for voting for the bill – releasing that ad early really made them look like children.
The pork was cover – a way for people who needed to justify their "against it before I was for it" votes.
(Note that I’m not sure that voting against the bill on Monday wasn’t actually the right move to take. But the Republicans didn’t help things any by looking like they were playing politics while Democrats were trying to fix a problem. That probably helped make it less toxic for Dems to vote for this in the end. That and the giant drop in the market on Monday after the vote, of course.)
Comrade Fedorovich Stuck
Look at it this way. It makes for less available borrowed money for war.
Doctor Jay
As to what changed their minds: some Black Caucus Democrats say Obama changed their minds here
And some Republicans say that the crash in the stock market on Monday changed their minds here.
phobos
You can also use the IE Tab add-on for Firefox. One click gives you an IE render without having to change browsers.
Chris Johnson
They’re going to look pretty retarded when the Dow craters 1000 points and Bush declares martial law and calls off the elections anyway…
tripletee (formerly tBone)
@Annette: Very nice! Works great on my phone – thanks.
gbear
One of the guys from MN changed from nay to aye because of the addition of mental health parity for health insurance. It was one of his key issues.
Comrade Jake
Goose was the only redeeming character in TopGun, and they fucking killed him. Meanwhile, Maverick lived and got the gal.
Just sayin’.
Tsulagi
After the debate last night and now the bailout passing, thought I’d stop by RedState for some sure-bet comedy. Get the serious adult’s perspective. Of course, plenty of frontpage posts Palin was the awesome. They swooned. They see the big picture.
Only a couple on the bailout. General consensus seems to be Bush sucked proposing it, but predictably, the Democrats are always worse! This whole mess is their fault!
One post by one of the big picture see-ers, Moe, basically was “yeah, Republicans helped pass this thing, but time to STFU about that and win the election.” And the patriots are almost unanimous in how that’s gonna happen. Take them home, Swamp Yankee…
Yep, forget straight talker, all aboard The Winky Express bus to victory!
Is “Yankee” in a wingnut username some special signifier? Do they automatically get the extra padded seats in their short busses?
gbear
I’m still getting the error message every time I post. What’s up with that? The new site takes a long time to load. I guess I should be happy that it loads every time, unlike the old BJ.
liberal
gbear wrote,
Same here: loads every time, but is really slow. (Page appears, but it sits there, running some script I’d assume.)
Fledermaus
The iPhone version is a nice touch, I just wish I could see comments
(obviously this comment not made from iPhone)
tripletee (formerly tBone)
"Yankee" in wingnut username = 1 wetsuit
"Swamp" and "Yankee" in wingnut username = 2 wetsuits
…and so on.
D. Mason
If it’s the same problem as before the rash of wordpress error it’s because of one of the ads. I haven’t experienced it yet so I can’t say for sure but that would be my wild guess.
John Cole
The site loads for me in an instant. In a blink, if you will.
Annette
This comment page on a refresh with new comments posted:
Dynamic Page Served (once) in 0.752 seconds (IE)
A new refresh after comments were posted:
Dynamic Page Served (once) in 3.421 seconds (FF3)
There is no load on the server to speak of, but given the black box problem cropping up consistently in FF this may be browser-related (some script or something else loading up on the page that takes longer in FF than in IE – that would be a change).
Annette
New refresh, immediately after posting the above.
Dynamic Page Served (once) in 0.773 seconds (IE)
Dynamic Page Served (once) in 0.737 seconds (FF)
It would take more data points, but maybe not a browser thing after all.
tripletee (formerly tBone)
@Fledermaus: try it again. A different plugin was installed that allows reading/posting comments from the iPhone. Annette FTW.
Nick Istre
@Annette:
Tesing posting from my iPhone. Not bad. I can read and post comments. The only thing that’s missing is the reply button.
Tsulagi
Looks like you’ve squashed almost all the bugs in making comments. Lot easier now. Good job.
About the only complaint I’ve got is the default big-ass bolded font in blockquotes, and that you still have to put in an ellipsis for a line space in them.
Oh, and still looks like the Langoliers eat the comments somewhere after 100+ when using Firefox.
And Preview still isn’t preview. Accurately, anyway.
Comrade Fedorovich Stuck
Loads fast enough here, even with only 256 RAM and only 1.5 DSL. Except last night when it really slowed down with the excess traffic. Election night should be fun.
tripletee (formerly tBone)
FWIW, I noticed last night that IE7 was taking significantly longer to load than FF3 or Chrome – it seemed to freeze for 10-15 seconds during load/refresh, making the entire browser unresponsive. Saw a couple of other people mention this as well. It didn’t throw any script errors, though.
phobos
My favorite story of the day: A newly confident Sarah Palin volunteers to field-dress Michigan for McCain while setting up Todd for the assist.
plus C
Nancy Pelosi brought blankies and num nums in case anyone’s feelings got hurt.
Punchy
Page called, and she’s not happy about getting served. She’s down with all that, yo, but ease back a little. And she prefers "unique" to dynamic.
Word.
Annette
The IE-freezing thing is actually a pretty well known "feature", as it waits for most/all of the elements to load before deigning to show anything. I was reloading in both browsers last night watching for the blackout box (and trust me, given that the Jags can’t seem to sell out the stadium on a regular basis, we know something about blackouts on the box around here). During those reloads, IE would freeze for up to five seconds at some points when the load was highest as it waited for the remainder of the element requests to be answered by the server. FF just started rendering everything as it got it, which is what we expected.
Comments previews – that’s a plugin (an old one) and I’m hunting around to see if anything has anything better/newer. There is another comment tag plugin I found, but it is simply a stripped down WYSIWYG set of buttons that doesn’t include one thing that appears to be fairly important to folks around here: blockquotes.
On another note, I’m rather surprised that the same toolbar present on the admin side for posting isn’t available as an on/off/configurable option on the comment side. The dev team doesn’t appear to be all that interested in having a built in option like that.
Comrade RareSanity
Shorter Cole: "Fuck it! We’ll Do it Live!"
P.S.
I don’t get a comment black hole with Chrome…
Michael D.
@John Cole: Not for me, John. Well, the page loads instantly. But when it does, I can’t scroll and click on anything for about 15-20 seconds.
liberal
D. Mason wrote,
I’m not sure it’s the same error, but I agree that it’s probably an ad.
Michael D.
And I always get a page with this when I post a comment:
tripletee (formerly tBone)
If it was just standard IE shittiness, it wouldn’t have stood out to me – this was a different and exciting form of shittiness. It would freeze after the page had already started rendering. May have just been a really slow ad fetch or something, but it locked the browser up hard – totally unresponsive.
Stuck in the Funhouse
Scrolling in IE gives me time to eat two pringle before it works. FF# I can only just look at the can and it’s done.
IE Pringle Test == FAIL
Seriously, I don’t know people use IE. except for the emailing ease, then I guess it’s Ok!. The last malware I’ve had on FF was last winter when I didn’t update Spyware Blaster.
Stuck in the Funhouse
And get error message after submit comment. BAck to FF
Keith
If you find yourself obsessively flagged for use of "off of" and "try and do something", you’re welcome (if I were an English teacher, I’d dock a letter grade per occurrence; that’s how bad I hate those phrases)
phil
That Goosegrade website appears to contain a mashup of John Cole and World of Warcraft. Would Palin be the banshee queen?