I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
big nurse, bitch!
you suppose they will send her to review The Hunting of the President?
It always warms my heart to read about an ambitious bit of hackery. Yes, you have to give credit to both the Washington Post and the New York Times for going out of their way to really strengthen the institution of journalistic hackery.
It's amazing the difference you can see in a paper article to article. The Post has some absolutely great reporting much of the time, but then you get crap like this. Amazing.
- Joel
----
Nightmares For Sale -
You're Damn Right I'm Angry!
What are ya gonna do when the NYT is carrying water for the GOP? Nothing - just sit back and wait for Rush O'Hannity to scream the NYT is so-o-o-o-o liberal. At least pro coaches stop their yapping at the refs after they get a couple of payback calls -
If she reported on a baseball game would we get the score? Just asking.
+++
How can I get a job like that? 
Marshall nails her, too.
OT: Saint Nancy Reagan
These "halo" pictures always freak me out.
It's galling but comprehensible that a talented reporter might be able to stick around at a top newspaper in spite of consistent but subtle bias. As long as the reporting is minimally competent at conveying the basic facts, it might take an editor a long while to figure out issues of spin, slanting, misleading use of true facts, and so on.
But crap like this must be on the other side of the line, right? Surely, when the reporter ignores the actual story and fails to report (even if buried deep in the article) the salient facts, you no longer have "competent but biased"; you have incompetent and useless, and the reporter gets canned. Right?
I really, really want to believe that is so. But how can one account for Schmidt's longevity at the Post if it is?
I believe she has some very embarrassing photos of the publisher.
The SCLM won't be able to ignore the Plame Affair when Scooter is led out of the White House in handcuffs.
I've stalked steno sue for years. totally impervious to criticism or self examination like all good media whores. and pravda on the potomac and its mirken of an ombudsman think she's doing a dandy job. let's all recall how she tried to get mwo readers who complained about her fired because they wrote the messages from work. one of the most evil stenographers to the corrupt along with miller at izvestia on the hudson. On a good note, steno sue can be rattled by vicious email messages. send her your nastiest thoughts, really, vaporize her. she cracks real good under pressure. just be sure you send it from your home computer.
SchmidtS@washpost.com - take it to her!
Let me see if I am reading this right.
It was Saddam Hussein's information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as "Baghdad Bob," who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade -- an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium.
Wilson is writing that bagdad bob was trying to buy uranium?
Does anyone else have a problem with this?
I dont get it,What is it that we are supposed to take from this?
From: Old Hat
Subject: Steno Sue, I love you!
To: SchmidtS@washpost.com
Dear Steno Sue,
I enjoyed your article on Joseph Wilson's new book "The Politics of Truth." I especially enjoyed the way you managed to avoid any mention of Karl Rove, "Scooter" Libby and Elliot Abrams, the three men Wilson fingers as suspects in the outing of his undercover CiA operative wife Valerie Plame.
Needless to say, you are being rightly pilloried by
the blogs right now for your shameless parroting of the White House line:
(Links to TalkingPointsMemo, NeedleNose and Eschaton)
Keep up the terrible work as an RNC hack, Sue!
Cheers,
The SCLM won't be able to ignore the Plame Affair when Scooter is led out of the White House in handcuffs.
grytpype
Don't forget Unka Karl. Wilson says he was showing various Nazi types info about Ms. Plame's true profession in March of '03. That's a criminal violation, folks. When will the grand jury act?
Marshall does a number on her as well, at www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Gawd!
I sit down to write, but first I visit the blogosphere and then after reading the posts my writing turns into letters to the Times, the Post, CNN, ABC,CBS,MSNBC etc. for their lying and disembling and their tacit support of these idiot republicans and their policies that are horrible for the average gut out there -
Gotta' run - I have to find a way to politely tell Shmitty what a cunt she is
Gawd!
I sit down to write, but first I visit the blogosphere and then after reading the posts my writing turns into letters to the Times, the Post, CNN, ABC,CBS,MSNBC etc. for their lying and disembling and their tacit support of these idiot republicans and their policies that are horrible for the average gut out there -
Gotta' run - I have to find a way to politely tell Shmitty what a cunt she is
sorry - I'm developing a nervous tic - don't forget to celebrate national flight suit day
http://www.rockcitynews.com/phot...ghtsuit-
day.htm
Obviously, Steno Sue went to the Goebbels University school of Propaganda - watch how Faux and the SCLM will report her article as fact, once Scooter is frogwalked out of the White House.
OT: Rose Garden, today --
GWB: There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily -- are a different color than white can self-govern.
WTF? White? Ours? All Merkans are white? That's what he's saying here. Has he told Condi, Powell? Actually, think of this being said by Condi or Powell as a 'talking point' to see just how dumb this is. Oh, and isn't India a democracy? And South Africa?
Of course, when Bush says 'ours' we know what he really means -- rich white guys like him. 'This thing of ours'.
Iraq sent actual trade missions to various underdeveloped nations during the sanctions period. It did, after all, have money to trade for food and other essentials, and agricultural products and professional services for export. It was a photograph of an Iraqi trade delegation visiting Niger that helped spark the entire "16-words" fiasco. No uranium was, so far as we know, included in the photo. Now, we get a Niger official's inference about an Iraqi who inquired about commercial ties between Niger and Iraq as proof that Iraq was seeking "enriched yellowcake uranium." (Sic: yellowcake is lightly processed uranium ore: by no means is it "enriched.") Nevermind that the amounts that were later alleged by Italy through the British would have amounted to a significant portion of the entire yearly output of Niger's mines and been tracked on the world commodities market, or that selling it to Iraq would have involved corrupting a four-party administration of them. An inference that the inquiry might have been directed at accomplishing a trade for pale yellow rocks that would be useless in the absence of a cascade of sophisticated centrifuges (of which Iraq, we now know by physical inspection and the testimony of Mahdi Obedi, had not even a single complete prototype nor an ongoing effort to make one--the program went dormant in 1991, when the USA became Saddam's principle adversary). And, a trade that would certainly be discovered long before it took place.
This stuff gets self-critical. If it can be specially-pled, tortured beyond any reasonable interpretation, into something that will cast the faintest favorable light ont the Administration's assertion of the "uniquely urgent" danger of the Hussein regime, it will be. It has to be, given how miserably Bush and his fanatics have fucked up Iraq. One seeks refuge from the awful truth where one can, I suppose.
OT: Rumsfeld announces new Iraqi Leader!
(Bad joke, yes, but see who's in charge in Fallujah now...)
Your preznit had a few things to say after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin today:
First of all, thank god there are no torture chambers or rape rooms in Iraq anymore:
A year ago, I did give the speech from the carrier, saying that we had achieved an important objective, that we'd accomplished a mission, which was the removal of Saddam Hussein. And as a result, there are no longer torture chambers or rape rooms or mass graves in Iraq.
And it appears he does have a strategery after all:
And so we're making progress, you bet. There's a strategy toward freedom. One of it, of course, is to continue to deal with those who are trying to stop the Iraqi people from realizing their ambitions of a free society. Whether it be in Fallujah, or elsewhere, we will deal with them, those few who are stopping the hopes of many.
There's a political strategy, and the Prime Minister and I will talk about that over lunch -- Mr. Brahimi's mission of putting together an entity to which we will transfer sovereignty. No, there is a strategy that will help us achieve the objective, which is a free and peaceful country in the heart of the Middle East that is desperate for freedom and democracy and peace.
Later, the preznit takes a shot at the press...
Q (Question asked in French.)
PRIME MINISTER MARTIN: (Responding in French.)
If you can give me just two seconds, I'm going to translate. They want it.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Some of these guys understand French. (Laughter.) Raise your hand, Gregory. (Laughter.)
... and the press corps responds in kind:
Q Will the next trip be down at the ranch, Mr. President, for the Prime Minister?
PRESIDENT BUSH: This is a nice place, but the ranch is even nicer. (Laughter.)
Q You need to teach him to ride. (Laughter.)
Finally, it's not too hard to guess what Prime Minister Martin is thinking in this photo.
Sheesh. Woulda thought she'd get one fact right at least. Saeed Sahaf, the Info Minister, wasn't 'Baghdad Bob' at any point. He was 'Comical Ali'.
OT - CNN poll
are you upset by the torture pictures?
35% saying no
If you are writing to the Post, copy to the following also.
Michael Abramowitz: abramowitz@washpost.com
National editor
Mary Hadar: hadarm@washpost.com
Assistant managing editor/front page features
The Post's Ombudsman, Michael Getler, is the readers' representative within the newspaper. E-mail him at ombudsman@washpost.com or call 202-334-7582.
Editors Leonoard Downie Jr and Steve Coll are not listed on the website.
Finally, it's not too hard to guess what Prime Minister Martin is thinking in this photo.
Holden Caulfield | Email | Homepage | 04.30.04 - 2:52 pm | #
Holden,
For the life of me, I cannot guess what Martin is thinking... unless he is wondering how US could have such an moron for a preznit?
By the way: go read Salon's articles yesterday on Jeffrey Record's new book: the assertion that Saddam wanted weapons of mass destruction to use against the United States (unless against invasion) was always bullshit. He wanted to keep the Israelis and Iranians at bay. Sometimes, it's not about us.
Just finished reading a new book on Stalin. The worst revelations, well, except of the depths of his depravity? It was this: he believed a great many of the lies with which he and his acolytes surrounded him. When reality broke through this wall of lies, when, say, Lysenko's plans for Soviet agricultural reform led to mass starvation, whose fault was it? Certainly not that of the lies. Instead, there must be corruption, the work of a small determined band of evildoers and unpatriotic comrades seeking to undermine Stalin's version of the truth. Reality was what Stalin decreed it was.
So familiar, it sounded. So familiar.
Holden, that's a great pic. I don't know the Prime Minister, but I'd say that smile looks a little forced. Either that, or he needs more fiber in his diet.
Hey, that wasn't fair for that smartass reporter to ask our preznit a question in French. Everybody knows he doesn't speak Canadian.
LOL. I just got a reply from Steno Sue:
Old Hat,
Thanks for your kind words. We wrote about the new Libby-Abrams-Rove accusations in yesterday's style section, an article i helped craft.
Sorry to disappoint!
OT: Rose Garden, today --
GWB: There's a lot of people in the world (WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?) who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours (IS WHITE 'OFFICIAL' COLOR OF US?) can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily -- are a different color than white (ANSWER TO ABOVE, APPARENTLY YES) can self-govern.
If nothing else, this should be used to get out the african-american, native indian, hispanic, asian, pacific-island and any other vote.
Talking about the SCLM.
It is headline news here in The UK, and most of Europe, the prison pictures of Iraqis being tortured. It is being shown all over the Arab world, including Iraq.
Yet the BBC's Washington reporter pointed out on the lunch time news here, that it is not getting much play in America. He said that only the Baltimore paper carried the story today. And that was because some of the soldiers involved are from Baltimore.
Is this true? Are The Washington Post and New York Times not reporting this story? This is a huge story around the world.
Did Bush meet Paul Martin's Scotty today? Remember how he gushed over him when he met him in Mexico.
But hey! At least we know that Michael Jackson has a new security force AND a new legal team.
I'm so grateful to be informed.
Old Hat, that's pretty funny.
An article in the Style section! Hah!
Here's my reply to Steno Sue:
The Style section, you say? Good to know that's where news about accusations of felonies committed by the White House go! Hey, it's a twofer: I get to read about Dick Cheney's office betraying national security assets for petty political purposes AND I get to read about that great new Thai place over on DuPont Circle both on the same page!
Thanks for the tip, Sue!
Cheers,
Steno Sue Alert:
If anyone is thinking about emailing Steno Sue herself, beware that she tried to get people in trouble for emailing her in the past. She tracked down people who were using their work email. If people were critical of her, she contacted their supervisors, etc. to let employers know that employees were perhaps using work email in violation of work rules.
This whole flap was a coupld of years ago and I think she got into trouble for it when people complained to the WaPo. Others here might remember more detail.
OT, but same crap here in St. Lou:
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- The incoming leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden said that he would not serve Holy Communion to Gov. James E. McGreevey, a divorced Catholic who supports abortion rights.
The Most Rev. Joseph Galante said Thursday that he was taking the stance primarily because the Democratic governor remarried without receiving a church annulment.
Galante also cited McGreevey's support of abortion rights, stem cell research and other positions that contradict church views.
Galante, who was being installed Friday during a Mass at St. Agnes Church in Blackwood, said he felt duty-bound to take a hard-line stance on the issue. He said the public becomes confused about church teachings when bishops fail to challenge Catholic politicians on their voting records.
McGreevey was not planning to attend the installation. If he did, Galante said, ``I'd give him a blessing. In his case, he can't go to Communion.''
McGreevey, a former altar boy who attended parochial schools and goes to Mass, would not comment Friday on Galante's decision. He also would not discuss details about his faith or say whether his first marriage was annulled.
Last week in Vatican City, Cardinal Francis Arinze said a Catholic politician who supports abortion rights ``is not fit'' to receive the Eucharist. At the time, McGreevey, who has also been criticized in recent weeks by Trenton Bishop John Smith, said denying the sacrament to politicians was unfair.
``I love my faith,'' McGreevey said last week. ``But as governor, I have a basic moral obligation to govern in a democratic, civil, inclusive society.''
It remains up to individual bishops to decide whether to deny Communion to politicians whose views are out of step with church teaching. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has received the sacrament at his home church in Boston since the Vatican announcement; Boston Archbishop Sean O'Malley has indicated he would not withhold Communion to anyone.
Galante, 65, a native Philadelphian, comes to New Jersey from Dallas, where he spent more than four years as coadjutor bishop.
Heres something for you to ponder.
Cheney Praises Fox News Channel
Vice President Calls Network 'More Accurate' Than Others
"It's easy to complain about the press -- I've been doing it for a good part of my career," Cheney said. "It's part of what goes with a free society. What I do is try to focus upon those elements of the press that I think do an effective job and try to be accurate in their portrayal of events. For example, I end up spending a lot of time watching Fox News, because they're more accurate in my experience, in those events that I'm personally involved in, than many of the other outlets."
Can we say "cha ching" to the fox news shareholders?
What the hell ever happened to the privacy of religious beliefs? If a religious organization has certain standards, more power to them. But for a priest to go out of its way to say that it wouldn't give communion to a particular politician is abhorent and disgusting.
BTW, it probably makes McGreevey more popular!
sally, true, I didn't spot anything on the Grey Lady's website today. It may be that the story only really became a story to the newsgatherers at large after the NYT had gone to press - tho' it's hard to believe that it would have a slower turnaround time than the humble (Manchester) Guardian. Or it may be that the American papers, unlike some of the British ones, have a more provincial outlook, hence the Baltimore paper was first to break the story.
What also worries me is something I just spotted on a related story on the BBC just now - the fact that the Pentagon put a hold order on CBS' prison atrocities scoop for 2 weeks. Oy.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news...-oped-
headlines
Bush, Kerry differ on war only in degree of delusion
By Steve Chapman
Originally published April 30, 2004
CHICAGO - The good news for opponents of the war in Iraq is that President Bush's challenger has finally called for a rapid American withdrawal.
"Every day the U.S. military remains in Iraq," he said, "we imperil U.S. security, drain our economy, ignore our nation's domestic needs and prevent democratic self-rule from developing in Iraq."
The bad news is that the challenger's name is Ralph Nader.
John Kerry, by contrast, sounds as though he thinks the only thing worse than making a mistake is correcting it. He recently asserted his fervent view that "we cannot fail. I've said that many times. And if it requires more troops in order to create the stability that eliminates the chaos, that can provide the groundwork for other countries, that's what you have to do."
That's right: more troops. Apparently he is determined to prove to Mr. Nader and millions of other disenchanted Americans that there really is no difference between Democrats and Republicans.
His Senate colleague, Democrat Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, takes heart in the essential uniformity of the two parties. In a speech Tuesday, he said Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry agree on the crucial things - that "America cannot cut and run," that "we should send more troops" and that we should solicit "greater involvement in Iraq from the international community."
Mr. Lieberman warned that any internal dissent on the war only demoralizes our troops and encourages our enemies.
What is probably more demoralizing to our soldiers is the prospect of dying in a war that we lack the resources, the will and the formula to win.
It was probably too much to hope that Mr. Kerry would take a strong stand against this war, since he lacked the nerve to vote against giving the president the authority to start it. But his latest position is even worse than might have been expected. Besides the similarities noted by Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Kerry shares something basic with Mr. Bush on this issue: an adamant refusal to face reality.
How does he plan to cope with the smoking debacle created by the administration? "I will return to the U.N., and I will literally, formally rejoin the community of nations," he said. Giving more authority to the United Nations in Iraq, he says, is "a prerequisite to bringing other countries to the table."
Iraq is sliding out of control, and he thinks other governments can be induced to share our burden? Internationalizing the occupation might have been possible before the invasion, or shortly afterward. But thanks to the expanding chaos, we can't even keep the foreign troops we've got there now. We might as well ask the United Nations to assume our national debt.
Not that Mr. Bush has any more of a clue. He continues to p
Not that Mr. Bush has any more of a clue. He continues to pretend that slogans and swagger can overcome a nationalist uprising in a country where our presence is resented more and more all the time.
In recent weeks, the U.S. occupation authority has managed to turn the once-quiescent Shiites against us, pushing them into an alliance with their longtime Sunni rivals. Even the head of our hand-picked Iraqi Governing Council, Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, said this week that the American troops are no longer "an army of liberation" but "an army of occupation."
The administration has a habit of basing its plan on political concerns rather than military needs, but military needs sometimes push their way to the forefront. Instead of reducing troop strength before the election, as he hoped, Mr. Bush has had to keep some units in Iraq long after they were supposed to come home.
Some conservatives grasp the magnitude of the task. The Weekly Standard magazine editorialized recently that 30,000 more troops "are needed just to deal with the current crisis. Even more troops may well be needed to fully pacify the country."
More troops might help, but more troops are extremely hard to come by. Given its other missions - in Afghanistan, Korea, Bosnia, Haiti and elsewhere - the American military is simply not big enough to sustain an extended occupation on this scale.
So here's the predicament: We can't manage an increasingly turbulent Iraq with the forces we have. We don't have many extra troops to send. We can't turn over security to Iraqis because they can't be trusted. We can't get other countries to help us out. And things keep getting worse.
But the option of leaving is thinkable only to fringe candidates such as Mr. Nader. Democrats and Republicans agree that we have to go on squandering American lives because we don't know what else to do.
OT, but I posted this comment on the Greenshirt/Naderite thread below,
too late to get any feedback:
Isn't it true that Ralphie the Nadir is not running
as the Green Party candidate this time around? So maybe
we shouldn't be calling his supporters "Greens" as a
convenient shorthand. In honor of the cultish nature of
his fan base, I propose calling them "Ralphitarians", or
"Branch Naderians". Suggestions, anyone?
After all, most Greens who truly care about their cause will be
voting for Kerry this time.
Kerry on C-SPAN right now.
Same old, I think Kerry's is a note of pragmatism (as he sees it) rather than jingoism, tho' I'd echo the fact that Bush doesn't seem to have much of a clue any more.
Nader's got a good line here. But Nader is not going to be elected in a hurry.
What's Kerry sayin', smalfish?
Anon, a mouse--It's my understanding that the Green Party is running a candidate, but will pull out before the GE. Many Green leaders told Nader not to run, back when he was trying to make up his mind.
Good point about the differentiation btwn Greens and Naderites.
CNN kerried Kerry's speech in Fulton, and he sounded good until he went off into traditional DC values land.
His basic point was how to handle Iraq mess that Bush has created.
But: where was the Arab-Islam troops to help with peacekeeping?
Nowhere: Saudi, Paki, Egypt, our new best friends in Libya.
And: according to his speech, the state of Israel does not exist since he never mentioned it. Any solution to any problem in the MidEast involves the Terror Nation. Kerry is another Sharon cocksucker.
I'm voting for Kerry out of necessity, but his speech was uplifting and deflating at the same time.
Kerry: get a clue.
SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
The non-trolls at this site want to see America out of the war. Fair enough, so do I.
Do you think Kerry could say this out loud and not be reviled?
Pragmatism may not be very sexy, but in the long run it'll be effective - stop being panty-waists - I would trust Kerry to make far more thoughtful decisions than Bush in a heartbeat - support the guy - he's a smart and able man - and that's what's important -
Of course Dems could just go back to eating their young and America will vote Bush and we'll all get WWIII - Kool-aid anyone?
Wilgoren, Schmidt, Pickler, J. Miller . . . .
Is there anyway we can KILL these people?
Or at least, if we can't, at least get them to admit their biases and/or conflicts of interest up front and on a consistent basis?
Re: the reporting on the prisoner scandal in Iraq, isn't it odd that the NY Times isn't covering it, since I understand the unit involved came from Uniondale, New York? There's a local angle for you.
"Gotta' run - I have to find a way to politely tell Shmitty what a cunt she is."
--Question: What's wrong with just saying to her, "Dear Sue, You're a cunt and here's why I think so . . . ." . . . ?
--From the posts on this thread, it sounds like stuff like this would really rattle her cage.
I second what dividedandconquered said about Kerry's ability to make decisions. Of course he can't go out of his way to
alienate the single issue loonies at this stage. Once he's in office, he'll surely see that Sharonism=More terrorism, and
make the appropriate policy. The thing about this guy, is he learns from his mistakes (note to Smirk: that's a GOOD thing).
Speaking of Wilgoren - Her latest hit-and-run on Kerry (NYT homepage): Some Blacks and Hispanics criticize Kerry!!
Omigod!
"Finally, it's not too hard to guess what Prime Minister Martin is thinking in this photo.
Holden Caulfield
Holden,
For the life of me, I cannot guess what Martin is thinking... unless he is wondering how US could have such an moron for a preznit?"
oldwhitelady - what he's actually thinking about is the agreement that shrub just verified that Canadian beef would no longer be embargoed from the US market. In other words, in order to serve as Prime Minister of Canada he's resolved not to grab Shrub by the neck and shake him til he breaks. Canadians do that you know - put the national interest ahead of their own personal ambitions.
When I went to Swopa's site I got a very strange error msg saying that the site has been suspended and that the owner needed to get ahold of the host owners....
Very strange indeed.
Yep...suspended. Go figure.
HAH!
A link from Atrios probably blew his monthly bandwidth allowance.
Drat. Site suspended. Will it be back up tomorrow? It'll be May 1st.
To all,
We're not supposed to have a monthly allowance, but we did just switch hosts last week. I fear we may have made a huge mistake -- here's the email we got from the tech-support twit:
That site was suspended earlier today because it began dramatically abusing system resources at about 1pm. We're still investigating the cause and will contact you via email with specifics.
Cheers,
Jace Herring
Bloghosts
Apparently, the geniuses at "bloghosts" don't know how blog traffic works.
My co-bloggers, who handle all the technical aspects of the site (including the hosting switch), have already heard an earful of expletives from me about this. Hopefully, we'll have it all straightened out soon, but I don't know exactly when.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Sent to Steno Sue:
So you're at it again, Steno Sue, you virulent hack. Like a computer virus embedded in a hard drive, you continue to reemerge to lie and spin and poison our political debate like the Repuke shill that you are. Today's example, your Joe Wilson coverage and the fact that you managed to exclude from your 660 words any mention of the likely frog march in cuffs of Libby, Abrams or your Unkie Karl. How is that possible? That's what his book's about. Check the title you creepy propaganda minister for pravda on potomac. Lies of omission are no better than lies of commission you immoral shill.
Even though mediawhoresonline may not be around anymore, we all still remember how you tried to get your critics fired because they wrote from their work computers. Well, that retaliatory tactic ain't gonna fly. Sending this from home you awful excuse for a totally discredited profession. Lady, once and for all, have you no shame?
Whore Post is a toilet and you are its attendant!
Toodles,
Joker
needless to say she didn't reply as she did to old hat.
DOH! Swopa's blog (Needlenose) just moved last weekend to a new hosting service that was supposed to be much faster and able to keep up with traffic. Apparently the hosting service is unfamiliar with, um, getting a link from Atrios
Apologies for the inconvenience folks. It's being worked on as we speak.
OT: Saint Nancy Reagan
These "halo" pictures always freak me out.
Jack
First the dime now the University. I doubt old Babs whould show this much class if anyone was talking about George, the Great Leader, Bush in those terms.
But yes, those holy pictures are freaky.
Maybe she could be the patron saint of fashion design or china manufacture.
Maybe Atrios could have a thread to say what these new Republican saints could be patron of. Could be fun on a slow news day.
I think the Democrats are working the refs with all the stories the past couple days about Kerry being "Gored."
do we really believe the folks at bloghost are still 'working' on it? wouldn't be surprised if needlenose is down all weekend ...
caveat emptor
EPT:
Sometimes I think I would give anything for a "slow news day." Surrealistic is bad enough, surrealistic and wow the shit's coming down so fast I can't pay attention to all of it -- that's something else again.
Upon following this link, I got an error message that this site has been suspended by bloghosts. Huh?
Sorry, op99. As mentioned a few comments up, we switched to a new site host last week, and they inexplicably freaked out at the sudden spike in traffic.
We are still trying to get it restored.
Swopa, what I find ominous is that they are accusing you of system abuse for simply having an increase in traffic? That's just stupid.
Do keep us informed. I am surprised you are still offline.
We've gotten a little more detail out of bloghosts -- in essence, they are claiming that some script problem or other bug in our site set-up was causing each hit to put a grossly disproportionate load on the server ... and thus, when the traffic spiked (which by itself was no problem, they say), their server was overwhelmed and they had to pull the plug on the site.
So at least they're no longer accusing us of doing anything malicious, but aside from that there's been no resolution.
We're transferring the site back to our previous host for the time being, and hopefully will be back online one way or the other in the next day or two. Sigh.
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