Against my better judgment, I’m going to run a couple of database repairs to try to address the comments issues we’ve been having, so comments will be off for a few minutes.
We’re back. If you had a spam comment, or a comment in moderation, it’s gone. Re-submit it.
And they’re going off again for a few more minutes. The “hangs” you guys were mentioning were me doing more maintenance in the background that locked some tables, so fuck it, comments are going down again.
Back. Sorry for the drama, I think I found at least one thing that will be a longer-term fix.
Chyron HR
Oh, good. I’ve been having issues with my comments only appearing once.
mistermix
Test comment. If this works we’re back.
Just Some Fuckhead
Hopefully it works now.
Arclite
WHere is my comment??!!?!?!111
Oh, nevermind.
Just Some Fuckhead
Gotta be in tiptop shape for tomorrow night.
mistermix
@Just Some Fuckhead: No kidding.
Comrade Mary
“Did you turn it on and off?”
Arclite
@mistermix: Thanks, Mistermix!
dmsilev
So, a new batch of hamsters?
Higgs Boson's Mate
Thanks, Mistermix!
Poopyman
@Just Some Fuckhead: I think we’re still gonna run a hamster or 2 into the ground. Th’ engines canna take th’ strain, Captain!
dmsilev
This was a conspiracy to hide the Whitey Tape, right?
Just Some Fuckhead
I’ve already got a few zingers lined up for the comments tomorrow night. I’ll probably just adlib the rest.
BGinCHI
@Just Some Fuckhead: I remember when zingers were just delicious little snack cakes.
dmsilev
@Just Some Fuckhead: Have you been practicing them since August? If not, it doesn’t count.
Violet
Thank you for doing whatever you did to try to fix the comments issue. I hope it works!
raven
Anybody watch “Call the Midwife”? It’s a BBC show and really good!
Gin & Tonic
You kids have fun tomorrow. I made dinner reservations with my wife at a very nice place and hope to hear and see nothing other than food and wine.
Schlemizel
ctrl-alt-del . . .works every time 8-{D
I am now going to copy and paste this message 4 or 5 times just to piss JC off!!
Seriously, thanks Mixie; its not your real job and as a group we are whiners but I really appreciate the place & that means more work for you.
dmsilev
@Schlemizel:
Glad to see I wasn’t the only one thinking of doing that.
Gin & Tonic
@dmsilev: E-mail him to tell him you’re doing it. He likes to get e-mail.
Arm The Homeless
@dmsilev: Not if we can make them retroactively funny.
BGinCHI
@raven: Thanks for the reminder. Want to see it.
The updated Upstairs/Downstairs on PBS (from BBC) is really good. Like a mini Downton Abbey.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@dmsilev: Yeah, that was my first thought. Three comments in a row saying “Test message”. But then I figured one of you bastids would find a way to reach through my screen and choke the living shit out of me, so it didn’t seem like such a good idea.
Hope the comments stay fixed.
dance around in your bones
Has anyone else completely lost the header? I have no Balloon Juice logo up top at all. Just the sub-header.
(Yes, I know these remarks are eminently snarkable).
Higgs Boson's Mate
What a relief to have the comments yazmaya kıyasla daha dengeli bir harf dağılımı sağlayarak okunurluğu artırmasıdır. It would bროგორც დროებით ტექსტს წყობის შესავსებადπεριεχόμενο που διαβάζει, όταν εξετάζει τη διαμόρφωση μίας σελίδας. Η ουσία της χρήσης.
YellowJournalism
@Arm The Homeless: Or harvest some good ones and outsource the rest.
BGinCHI
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Grammar, sir, grammar!
Joel
So what happened to the REAL WHITEY TAPE that people were talking about? Is it just a re-mixed version of Bill O’Reilly servicing himself with a falafel?
gwangung
@Just Some Fuckhead: Dude, half asleep and with a 104 degree fever, you could toss off better zingers than Romney….
(Now, Obama…you’d have to drop the fever, but…)
JWL
Does anyone know why Digby’s comment section is down?
Higgs Boson's Mate
@JWL:
The sky actually did fall in on them?
Chyron HR
@BGinCHI:
Hilarity ensues tomorrow night when Romney still thinks that.
Eric
Is this thing on?
Anoniminous
@Gin & Tonic:
As a long-time married man I suggest hearing and seeing your wife every now and then. If you want to go Full Monty you can talk to her all romantic-like and tender.
Violet
@JWL: Did the FYWP problems migrate over there since mistermix fixed them here?
gogol's wife
@Joel:
It was supposedly going to start 4 minutes ago. Maybe the troll will show up and live-blog it for us.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Hey are you that Klingon guy, who does Psy’s Gangham Style?
WereBear
You know what’s friggin’ redistribution, you wingnut idiots?
It’s Mitt Romney stealing the assets of companies and throwing people out of work.
It’s Mitt Romney stealing people’s pensions.
It’s Mitt Romney deciding that 47% of the population can just die already, rather than he pay one penny more in taxes.
I would really like to throttle the next whiner who brings this up. Fortunately, they are out of my reach.
BGinCHI
@Chyron HR: So you killed Osama bin Laden?
Watch me eat this shaped cake dessert item with my bare hands!
Zinger!
some guy
Breaking News: Black Man Still President.
MikeJ
@JWL:
First victim of the
death panelcat food commission.Violet
@Joel: I think the Tucker Carlson’s vanity project has the tape. It’s there if you want to see it.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Joel: As Paul Simon would sing:
Where have you gone, Andrew Breitbart?
The Right Wing casts it’s lonely eyes to you whoo whoo whoo
What did you say. Mrs Limbaugh-son
Behave Yourself has left and gone away ay ay ay ….ay ay ay!
raven
@Joel: You wanna see it?
dmsilev
@Violet: Josh Marshall apparently found it on YouTube earlier this afternoon. It’s Obama giving a college commencement address, a speech form which traditionally ends with a call to rise up and slaughter the oppressive forces of whitey.
Political Observer
SHOCK POLL, SHOCK POLL
National Journal says Obama 47 to ROMNEY 47.
It’s all TIED UP heading into the debates….
raven
@dmsilev: Oh, that’s different than what I posted.
mamayaga
@JWL: The company that maintained the program she used for comments decided to shut it down, so she needs to set up a new commenting app. Should be a few days.
Just Some Fuckhead
@dmsilev:
Clearly just another area he’s been hopelessly ineffective in during his first term.
Chyron HR
@Political Observer:
Holy shit, the Whitey Tape was so lame you couldn’t even pimp it for more than five minutes? How sad.
Political Observer
Romney is consistently closing in on the President….it’s gonna be a LOOOONG election night for liberals…
PeakVT
@JWL: Because she never looks at the comments and thus missed the message which was visible for months that the commenting widget was going away.
dmsilev
@Chyron HR: No, it’s simpler than that. Tucker Carlson’s check bounced, but Mitt Romney’s cleared. Hence, Romney poll cherry-picking.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Chyron HR:
That’s just the first one. Rumor is he gave the Howard commencement speech in full Mau Mau getup.
Violet
@dmsilev: The Tucker vanity project article says he’s speaking to “an audience of black ministers.” Is that the same thing?
some guy
Breaking News: Obama still up by 3 in Colorado, 9 in Florida, 10 in Ohio.
Chyron HR
@Political Observer:
Yes, it will definitely be a long night for noted liberal Mitt “My views are progressive” Romney.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Political Observer: But the Rockwall Herald Poll has Obama 53 to Romney 41. So there.
(Yeah, I’m just making shit up. Then again, PO lives in a fantasy world – at least I know mine’s not real.)
wasabi gasp
My elevator has lifted Detroit more than this guy. Sing!
Yutsano
@Political Observer: :: snicker ::
Political Observer
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
Link pleaase.
some guy
Breaking News: Moonie Times/JZ Analytics Poll has Obama +9, Fox News calls it Obama +5
Violet
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): The Pine Valley Bulletin has Obama 62%, Romney 30% (new wingnut number of the day!) and I’m An Entitled Undecided Voter at 8%.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Political Observer: Oh, I’m sorry, you didn’t have a link either. I thought we were just writing down fantasy scores. Your candidates so lousy, though, you’re happy just to break even.
Chyron HR
BREAKING NEWS: Romney up by 20 in Alaska, Oklahoma, Utah
dmsilev
@Violet: Probably. I might have gotten things confused. In any event, Obama called for throwing babies into active volcanos, carving Malcolm X’s face onto Mount Rushmore, and mandatory executions for all attendees of Christian evangelical megachurch services.
And then rose three points in the polls.
Political Observer
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
Go to Realclearpolitics.com/polls and its the first one you see.
Now your turn.
Violet
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): I’m perplexed as to why it’s a SHOCK POLL. Wasn’t Romney supposed to be ahead with all that UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH?
Davis X. Machina
@dmsilev:
Hey, I remember that. It wound up with students dancing around with the bursar’s head on a pike.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Violet: I suspect PO’s shocked that he’s having to defend Romney.
Just Some Fuckhead
@dmsilev:
I couldn’t understand a word of it with that heavy black accent he used.
Chyron HR
I like how if you actually go to http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/, there’s no “National Journal” poll listed anywhere on the page. But hey, the holy prophet
MohammadJoseph Smith says you’re allowed to lie to infidels, right?Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@dmsilev: And he did all that from Reverend Wright’s pulpit.
Linda Featheringill
@Political Observer:
There is no link. He’s kidding.
AA+ Bonds
It is just like a liberal to ask for people to resubmit their spam
MikeJ
@dmsilev:
In his Rhetoric, Aristotle called it σκοτώνουν τα μικρά λευκά.
Randy P
@Political Observer: Actually, the first thing I notice on the front page of Real Clear Politics is “RCP National Average, Obama 48.9, Romney 45.4, spread +3.5”
You’re still struggling with that Central Limit Theorem concept I assigned you a few weeks ago, aren’t you?
But you’re right, one of the 10 polls on the “poll” page shows a tie instead of the lead shown by the other 9. Your analysis of this observation? “It’s all tied up” is not really a good summary of those 10 polls. Please try again.
eemom
ok, this is a sincere question: why do y’all engage with the spambot Romtroll?
dmsilev
Real Clear Politics state polls for today:
Florida Suffolk/WSVN Obama 46, Romney 43 Obama +3
Virginia Roanoke College Obama 48, Romney 40 Obama +8
North Carolina SurveyUSA Obama 49, Romney 47 Obama +2
Nevada WeAskAmerica Obama 53, Romney 42 Obama +11
Missouri WeAskAmerica Romney 48, Obama 45 Romney +3
New Mexico Rasmussen Reports Obama 51, Romney 40 Obama +11
Rhode Island WPRI/Fleming Obama 57, Romney 33 Obama +24
Maryland Baltimore Sun Obama 57, Romney 34 Obama +23
Romney is ahead in “swing state” Missouri by only 3. Even last week’s wingnut gold standard in polling, Rasmussen, has Willard crashing and burning in what was originally thought to be a battleground state.
Yutsano
@Chyron HR: Prevarication? From a troll? UNPOSSIBLE!!
Just Some Fuckhead
From the Daily Caller:
Does this mean he’s smart enough to give a speech without a teleprompter? Or is there another wingnut trope that explains this deviation?
The Dangerman
Should someone tell our resident troll that no one gives a flying Philadelphia fuck about National Polls at this stage of the contest (i.e., see: Gore, Al)? Shocking, yes, I know.
dmsilev
@Randy P: He’s still trying to grasp counting above ten without taking his shoes off.
raven
@eemom: They told me it was fun earlier.
AA+ Bonds
@eemom:
Every troll always works here
MikeJ
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Demonic possession.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@eemom: Mommmmm! This was fun, and then you had to get all serious!
He’s a broken record. Tonight I figured bullshitting him was in order. He’s not going away, so it might as well be fun.
Violet
@Chyron HR: Our Political Observer must be quite old because he doesn’t know how to copy/paste a link. But the National Journal poll is there on this page: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html.
Note that it’s the only poll showing a tie. All the others show Obama up by 1 to 9 points.
dmsilev
@Just Some Fuckhead: When he’s trying to wear his mask of normalcy to fool people, he needs to use a teleprompter to keep his lies straight. In front of an audience of his picked personal anti-whitey army, he’s speaking from the heart.
Sort of like Willard talking to the millionaire donors.
OGLiberal
Chyron HR: It’s there and it is tied but the average is +3.5 Obama. That’s the important number. Of course, the Whitney tape is going to swing that to +27 Romney by Friday.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Just Some Fuckhead: This plays right into the Romney campaign’s story that Obama is one of the greatest orators or our time, thereby totally contradicting the Republican meme that Obama can only give speeches via a teleprompter.
AA+ Bonds
THIS RIDICULOUS CHAIR-O-PROMPTER OF A PRESIDENT
Randy P
@eemom: I dunno. Especially when sometimes I complain about trolls hijacking the thread when there are a half a dozen flame wars going with them.
Just for laughs, I guess. And practice. Flex the arguing muscles a little. Though this is pretty weak stuff, I must admit. Makes me feel like kind of a bully.
Just Some Fuckhead
@dmsilev:
Wouldn’t that make him super evil genius smart? I don’t know of any affirmative action programs for super evil geniuses.
Linda Featheringill
Who is National Journal? I went to their website and the more complete results seem to be a lot like other polls, with the exception of the Obama-Romney race.
But I still don’t know anything about them. Has anyone heard of them before?
dmsilev
@Violet: And here’s the thing. You know that margin of error note at the bottom of every poll, the one that says “19 out of 20 polls will fall within the margin of error”? Well, guess what? We get a dozen or more polls released a day, so the odds of hitting that 1 in 20 outlier due to sheer bloody statistical chance are actually pretty good.
That’s why aggregators like RCP and Nate Silver are so valuable, and it’s why idiot reporters who apparently don’t know anything about math beyond arithmetic shouldn’t be listened to for polling analysis.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Great link! My artistic talent is so limited that I have trouble arranging the sprinkles on a cupcake.
“Gangnam Style” tickles me because there are so many YouTube riffs on it.
dmsilev
@Just Some Fuckhead: You’re not properly appreciating the depths of his evil genius. He made himself *appear* to be disadvantaged in order to exploit affirmative action. It all started with the way he arranged for his birth.
Hill Dweller
@Political Observer: As I was saying last week, forget the polls, and watch the behavior of the two campaigns.
Your side is going all in on Rev. Wright, which didn’t work in ’08 when Obama was less known, and the Benghazi attack. It reeks of desperation, and shows no foresight. Both attacks will likely backfire.
Meanwhile, Obama is out visiting the Hoover damn and delivering pizza to a local OFA office.
Cacti
@Political Observer:
For reals.
The ones in the eastern time zone will have to wait till midnight for the polls to close in CA, OR, and WA, that give Obama the 73 electoral votes that put him over the top.
Violet
@dmsilev: If Obama wins the election by cheating and stealing it with the help of his Black Army (the only way he can, of course), is his second term when he’s planning to implement his African Takeover of America? I was a little surprised he didn’t get to it in the first term, but I guess that financial crisis really did take more time than he thought.
jwb
Dammit, mistermix, Cole promised us the troll upgrade package, but all we’re getting is the dumb trollbot PO.
Davis X. Machina
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
They’re just bringing Howell Cobb up to date, to wit: “If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.”
Chyron HR
I’m glad the Republicans brought up Rev. Wright, though. I think the nation should have a public discussion about who’s church says what, and I’m sure the duly ordained Mormon Bishop Mitt Romney would agree.
beltane
@Cacti: And I am going to be soooo drunk by then. I hope I make it.
piratedan
well I have to admit, since frequenting here, dealing with the reality challenged amongst us has become less troublesome and keeping our A game is easier when you get practice on a regular basis.
Cacti
@Hill Dweller:
Rachel Maddow just reported that the “SHOCKING, DEVASTATING, NEW TAPE” was shown by Tucker Carlson on MSNBC back in 2007.
*Yawn*
Violet
@Chyron HR: This would be an excellent line of discussion. Perhaps it could be brought up at the debate?
some guy
Breaking News: Obama up by 8 in Virginia and 10 in Nevada.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Here is a Time magazine political reporter commenting on Pudge Carlson’s “Obama is Blacker than You Thought” (h/t Rachel Maddow) tape
about 3 hours ago via web
A thirty year old political reporter who is unfamiliar with code switching? you have to concede, that’s really something. He should go watch video of the Clinton impeachment trial. George Lindsey would’ve need subtitles to understand Lindsey Graham down home affectations
burnspbesq
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Aww, man, that’s just mean. Funny as shit, but mean.
Linda Featheringill
@Linda Featheringill:
Apparently National Journal is a weekly magazine in Washington, DC. I probably wouldn’t run into it out here in flyover country.
dmsilev
@Violet: I’m told that the FEMA re-education camps will start opening around Feb. 2013, the White House will be formally renamed the Black House in March, and by May we’ll all be required to gay-marry someone. The mandatory abortions start in August, especially for the men.
Emma
Could you please stop playing with the poor troll and tell me if you’ve heard that Romney said he would cap middle class deductions at $17,000?
Chyron HR
@Emma:
No, but if you hum a few bars I can fake it.
MikeJ
@dmsilev:
I read it on the reverse side of an interstate exit sign.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Emma: I’m kind of stunned at the lack of reaction around the ‘sphere. TRMS is almost over and it hasn’t come up. Seems to me it’s kind of a big deal.
One site I can’t check is Think Progress. I’ve been getting a “suspected malware” warning for the last couple hours. ANyone else seeing that?
dmsilev
@MikeJ: One of those “road work supported by the stimulus act” signs?
AHA! It’s all coming together! Where’s my chalkboard? I need to draw lines between things and circle some words!
burnspbesq
@Emma:
Romney has finally figured out that if you’re going to give the one percent a big tax cut, and keep the overall package revenue-neutral, you have to fuck the middle class.
Oddly enough, most of us figured that out in the early 1990s.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: When I first glanced at comment #47, I assumed someone was mocking The Derf. Then, of course, I realized that was not the case. He was doing it himself. That gave me a chuckle.
jwb
@Linda Featheringill: National Journal is a political magazine owned by the Atlantic.
Steeplejack
@Chyron HR:
LOL.
Cacti
Breaking News: Obama hitting 73 percent support with Hispanic voters, while Romney fades to 21 percent.
More Breaking News: Hispanic voter registrations up 22% since 2008 election.
What does this mean?
VICTORY for Romney of course!
scav
Damn well better be a long night with all the drunken giggling I’m stocking up for.
trollhattan
@some guy:
+10 in Nevada? Unpossible–where’s that Sharon Angle magic?
Corbin Dallas Multipass
are there any dc area bjers wanting to meet up for some debate watching?
beltane
Mitt Romney will now have to explain his ‘screw the middle class’ tax plan tomorrow night. That’ll be a zinger for sure.
Chyron HR
Wasn’t the Whitey Tape supposed to air at 9:00? It’s been an hour and my world remains distinctly un-rocked. Shit or get off the pot, Republicans.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Cacti:
Sounds like Acorn is registering the illegals.
dmsilev
@trollhattan: Sorry, the witch was running in Delaware.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@beltane: he said that the “bucket” might (I think he said might) be smaller for upper income people. Seems to me that’s gonna scare the shit out of a bunch of churches and private schools, and a certain group of Red Beanie’d political meddlers.
Cacti
@beltane:
And his running mate’s new declaration about how “30% of Americans want a welfare state, 70% want the American dream”.
Well, at least he’s dropped it from about half of the country to about a third.
And what a coinkydink, the non-white population of the country happens to be about…
30%
Violet
FYWP is back. I hit “Submit Comment” only one time. Comment hung, not posting. Eventually I got the “Duplicate Comment” page.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Cacti: 100% of Americans want a welfare state. We’re just at odds over who gets the welfare.
Emma
@burnspbesq: It was sort of an official comment. It’s a great point for the President to push. It means middle class home owners like myself would have to either lose the mortgage deduction or the property tax deduction. About %4,000 a year less in the kitty.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cacti: Ryan also said that we need to find jobs for the 47%, which again strikes me as something worthy of attention. The retired, the disabled, the active duty military* and working people who qualify for the EITC, among others, should get jobs, the bums.
Baud
Breaking News: Fuck all the polls. GOTV!
Violet
@Just Some Fuckhead: Pretty much the same with abortion. I know it’s not 100%, since some religious whack jobs think women should never have an abortion, even if she’s been raped or carrying the baby is going to kill her. But outside of that small percentage, everyone else thinks abortion is okay. It’s just under what circumstances it’s okay (rape, health/life of the mother, viability of fetus, mother’s choice) that is the difference.
So if someone says abortion is okay if the woman has been raped, the proper response is, “So we agree. Abortion is okay.” Watch them panic and try to walk it back.
Davis X. Machina
@Violet: Same thing happened to me, in a reply to you… time to get paranoid?
Violet
@Davis X. Machina: Just happened to me again. Now I am paranoid.
Cacti
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I shall have to tell my 93 year old grams to get a damn job.
Hmmm…what sort of work can a nonagenarian do? I know!
United States Senator!
Just Some Fuckhead
I’m still trying to figure out what is the point of lowering tax rates if yer gonna offset it with a cap on deductions and other (insert gobbledygook here.)
If people don’t realize actual savings then none of the Republican magic can work. And if people realize actual savings, then we’ve lowered revenues and the debt will continue to skyrocket.
I’m clearly not smart enough for this stuff.
Mike in NC
Zingers + Unlimited Corporate Cash = Rmoney VICTORY! Unless he spends tomorrow night stepping on his dick.
The Dangerman
@Emma:
In Mitt’s world, you’ll be happy to trade the deductions for a lower tax rate; trust him, it’ll be revenue neutral to you. It will. Trust him.
/joe isuzu
Baud
@Just Some Fuckhead:
If you’re expecting your income to rise substantially (as GOP voters always seem to), then lower tax rates are a better deal at higher income levels than deductions.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cacti: Larry O’D is showing the clip right now. At leat half the people in the audience around Ryan look to be of SS and Medicare age. I didn’t catch where he was speaking, but I know there are a lot of GOP-leaning suburbs where real estate taxes would fill up Willard 17% bucket pretty damn quick.
hhex65
Anyone see that awesome photobomb on Rmoney today at a Chipotle? Looks like more the workers were forced to pose with him: via bobcesca
Emma
@Baud: You funny. If you’re expecting your income to rise substantially (as GOP voters always seem to), then lower tax rates are a better deal at higher income levels than deductions.
My raises have been between 2% and 3% a year for the past umpty-ump years, and I’m one of the lucky ones in my profession.
Maude
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Neither is Romney.
He is stupid.
redshirt
The state poll numbers at TPM look fantastic. Keep it going y’all!
Davis X. Machina
@Emma: My raises are similar — but completely eaten away by increases in the employee contribution towards health insurance.
I don’t know anyone who expects their income to rise substantively who isn’t gambling, either by gambling, or ‘investing’, which is the same thing, in a world with 1% savings CD rates.
mistermix
Another test comment.
Higgs Boson's Mate
Oh damn! I left the most profound, witty, comment I’ve ever written on the thread that disappeared. It would have become an instant meme. Now I know how Coleridge felt when he forgot the rest of “Kubla Khan.” No, really.
Michael
Did anyone else notice that Romney is all 3 of the following AT THE SAME TIME: catching up to Obama in the polls (I.e. behind), tied in the polls, AND leading in the (unskewed) polls?
Pretty remarkable feat if you ask me.
Steeplejack
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Your hoekstroika is strong.
TheMightyTrowel
@Michael: Proof that the LIEbral media is skewed and fails to report on Mitt’s superhuman polling!!!!!111111111!!!!
VICTORY, also too.
Yutsano
@mistermix: Should we call you Jonny now?
Maude
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
I lost a lousy comment.
TheMightyTrowel
[Shit. the funny one disappeared but that piece of crap comment made it through!! FYWP!]
ETA: just for good measure… FYWPWARPF
Hill Dweller
Apparently Fox aired part of the Obama speech Drudge is now pushing back in ’07.
eemom
So this “pardon our dust” post has been all there is for what, 5 hours now?
Don’t want to alarm anybody but I think mm might have accidentally deleted all the FPers in his effort to fix the blog. Jussayinzall.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Maude: I got a rock.
Maude
@TheMightyTrowel:
Are you going to watch the debate or read about it later. I’d like to know what you think of it.
All good comment get erased.
John Arbuthnot Fisher
Knob Creek is delicious. Especially when it’s free. That is all.
+4
Comrade Mary
You didn’t shoot Old Yeller, did you?
(Seriously, thanks for digging in, mistermix. I really appreciate it.)
Matt McIrvin
@Randy P: I went to RealClearPolitics and noticed that the front page has a link that says “NJ: Tie Race”. I thought “shit, a New Jersey state poll tied up?” until I realized they meant “National Journal”.
TheMightyTrowel
@Maude: I’ll probably watch it live (by watch, of course we mean stream) but I’ll be at work and I have a few appts during the day. I’m sure i’ll be dropping into debate threads etc during the day.
You? I forget, you’re not US-based either are you?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Todd Akin continues to fail eighth grade biology
Hill Dweller
CBS News’ resident Willard shill, Jan Crawford, says Obama’s speech has news value.
hhex65
@hhex65: uh, there was a sentence in there somewhere…
Higgs Boson's Mate
Once again, thank you for delving into the DB, Mistermix.
Another Halocene Human
@Baud: Thank you. Made calls for two hours for a state lege race. Challenger is a really swell guy (who knocks on doors!), incumbent is a piece of shit. One of the people I called told me he’d vote for anyone running against that guy because he’s a liar. (the incumbent owns a failed roofing business and the guy I called had some business dealings with him in the past) Hahahahah.