My wishlist also...what is it?

Archie Bell and the Drells meet Stinky and the Hamsters. Nice!

Obama's Kenya Ghosts

Not ghosts. Real, live, dictators.

Lines!
Listen up!
Charles runs a taut ship.
There will be no loose code!
There will be no slack code!
Above all if you're spaghetti code you will be keel hauled!
So tighten up or feel Stinky's cudgel!

That is all.

Steyn:

If Obama is elected in November, at G7 meetings, for the first time since time they began, America will have a more left-wing leader than any other member of the group - Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Britain (and that's before Gordon Brown loses to David Cameron). Right-of-center government throughout the western world - except Washington.

Read that again. What sort of "salvaging" of America's reputation does Obama hope to accomplish with right-of-center European state officials? Yes, he and Zapatero can get drunk together and make out, but the others? He'll get a cold shoulder, like Merkel's. Way to go, Barry! Way to reduce America's image abroad!

No, please. Not Huckabee's band. Please, no.

That'll teach me to turn on Fox.

Deliverance is on on CMT right now.

Ned Beatty's about to have a really bad day...

Surely somebody with math skills who's good at writing conditionals can take care of the vertical alignment thing.

Tighten up!

re: #6 Charles

Layin' down some fatback bass, baby. That's our Huck! Make it funky now!

/

re: #7 Palandine

Deliverance is on on CMT right now.

Ned Beatty's about to have a really bad day...

Paddle faster! I hear banjos!

WOW That was very interesting, but I have no idea what the heck it was about.

re: #11 BignJames

Paddle faster! I hear banjos!

Shoot, I'm a girl, and when I'm canoeing with friends and the river's pretty empty, you kind of get an eerie feeling...

/Squeeeeaaaaal!

re: #6 Charles

No, please. Not Huckabee's band. Please, no.

That'll teach me to turn on Fox.

Three great guys, three great chords?

Have you tried bracket P bracket stuff bracket /p bracket? Sometimes I can get that to align things right in surprising places.

ack, Dexter just started.. back later

re: #14 ploome hineni

My question exactly. Is there any reporter left in American television who will ask that question?

An article that is critical of Obama in the Daily Mail--even much of the British press is in love with Obama, so this was interesting to read.

[Link: www.dailymail.co.uk...]

Repost for an open thread:
Muslim Day Parade 2008 NYC.

re: #20 puckish and beguiling

God, I love Melanie Phillips. Caroline Glick, too.

There's a lot of fancy language in that CSS Wishlist, but what I want to see is an element property refer-back, sort of like inheritance. If I have a sidebar containing fixed content that is floated on the left, within a wrapper (div) container that expands (height="auto"), and I want the sidebar to expand in height along with the wrapper, I should very simply be able to set the height for the sidebar to reference the height of the wrapper (body) container. Very simply, the page expands to a height of 1024 pixels, then the sidebar does as well. There are currently work-arounds for this, but they are ridiculously bulky and nebulous, at best. My addition to the wishlist, unless it's already there, and I didn't recognize it.

Charles -

About 4 different times today I have tried to get to lgf with no luck. The title appears on the page title bar but the browser is blanked and the status in the lower left hand corner sits at a URL with "sharethis" in it. No problem getting to other sites - just lgf hung while waiting on that url. I am on firefox 3.0.3 ubuntu. FYI

The Germans are bombing Pearl Harbor on AMC.

Planet Earth is on. Just beautiful.

Still surprised there's any pretty Earth left.

re: #21 NoSubmission

Thanks for posting that. The Only coverage I could find was from pamela at Atlas so I decided not to post. Thanks.

re: #16 taxfreekiller

My personal horrors are the ads selling government sponsored electric scooters.
They are a little too emblematic right now.

re: #7 Palandine

Deliverance is on on CMT right now.

Ned Beatty's about to have a really bad day...

Squeal my name! (smack)

re: #30 rawmuse

Gubment'll get you all kinds of cool stuff.

That SOB with the question marks all over his suit should run for Congress. At least he'd be honest about it.

re: #23 ploome hineni

What, that he should be asked whether he, as a Christian, has a problem with this?

About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.

The mob were Muslim supporters of Raila Odinga, Obama's cousin, for whom Obama campaigned heavily. Odinga signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Muslims which consented to, among other things, the establishment of sharia law.

Does Obama have any problem with this?

I did more walking for McCain/Palin today. Had an Obama supporter take the poll, it went fine (it's just 5 questions) & thanked him for his time. Another Obama supporter said "Bye bye" and let the screen door close in my face when I said I was taking a pole for the Missouri Republican Campaign committee. Lots of people weren't home, but most of the people I polled, again, were supporting McCain/Palin. And maybe 2 or 3 of the houses where nobody was home had stuff that would make you think "Republican," like flags and patriotic bunting and "God bless America" signs on the doors. The last guy I talked to (actually him and his son) were cool, the son was probably in his 30's and the dad in his late 50's, we talked for maybe an hour ... they were both VERY informed, especially the dad, and very opinionated. ACORN, Soros, Rezko, Wright, Ayers, etc. etc. etc., he knew all about it.

By the way, my stepmom told me that her mother, who lives in suburban St. Louis, had her McCain/Palin sign stolen from her yard, and other people in the area have had their signs BURNED. I wonder when Obama intends to condemn this blatant disrespect for personal property?

re: #29 Killgore Trout

Thanks for posting that. The Only coverage I could find was from pamela at Atlas so I decided not to post. Thanks.

It was a very low turnout. Hardly any marchers and no audience speak of, other than the protesters, that is. Much smaller than last year in every respect but they made up for it with anger.

re: #21 NoSubmission

Repost for an open thread:
Muslim Day Parade 2008 NYC.

Awesome!

CNBC is doing a 1 hour program on the Rise of the Super Rich. Viva Fidel! NBC!

re: #36 NoSubmission

It was a very low turnout. Hardly any marchers and no audience speak of, other than the protesters, that is. Much smaller than last year in every respect but they made up for it with anger.

Men who call women they don't "whores" are filled with misogyny. I really feel sorry fot their wives.

re: #39 MandyManners

Men who call women they don't know "whores" are filled with misogyny. I really feel sorry fot their wives.

re: #40 MandyManners

Fot?

re: #39 MandyManners

Men who call women they don't "whores" are filled with misogyny. I really feel sorry fot their wives.

There was one woman there with a black eye. I hope it wasn't from domestic violence. She did look really beaten down, though.

re: #41 Hard Right

Fot?

Yeah. Fot. What are you going to make out of? Huh!?

re: #35 Tigger2005
Thank You for your efforts.

re: #43 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Yeah. Fot. What are you going to make out of? Huh!?

Fot you. :)
//

re: #15 rawmuse

Three great guys, three great chords?

Oh man, can I use that? That's gooood! The Denver area is overrun with lazy guys playing "blues" so they don't have to rehearse.

Ace is pissed!

You Know...

Some Republicans are, alas, the exact same sort of unsophisticated angry morons who shout things like "Terrorist" about Obama when McCain is speaking, thus putting him on the extreme defensive, or having temper tantrums on blogs when the proprietor requests they refrain from exposing him to any lawsuits.

They substantially vindicate every stereotype the left and MSM has about us, and make the rest of us not only look bad, but make us squeamish from even being political associates. And they lose us precious votes.

And yet these screamers and tantrum-throwers really think they're the ones helping the team. These malformed, brain-damaged shut-in angry monsters think they've got the right message to carry to the non-deformed, non-retarded demographics.

Wanna know why we're losing? Wanna know why McCain had to make a statement about Obama not being dangerous and being a good and decent man?

Because you geniuses embarrassed him with your stupidity and compelled him to say that.

1% of LGF's commenters embarrassed him greatly and got him widely called a "hate site." Because these fucking imbeciles just thought their scary brilliant pathologies were just too important to not be shared publicly.

99% of readers and commenters are great. It's the 1% of brain-damaged, ignorant mutants that always causes all the embarrassment. On blogs. And at campaign rallies.

And once again: They think they're the ones who have the important messaging which will win over America.

For God's sakes, you embarrass your own would-be political allies. How can you delude yourselves?

At some point, if you really had something valuable to contribute, don't you think someone would have said "Great point, man!" by now?

Can you begin to consider the possibility that you are consistently ignored, and have to resort to shouting "Terrorist" or throwing temper-tantrums on blogs, is because you're a mutant idiot that non-mutants non-idiots just don't have time for? And perhaps you'd best go back to just lurking?

Consider: Earlier today I, a fairly prominent blogger, was pushing the Obama gal-pal story, helping to get it out there.

Now I have deleted it, and will not be posting it again. I'm done with the story.

All because a nasty pathetic wretch of a "man" thought that he would show me by repeatedly spamming a name I'd asked people not to.

Just like with McCain, ready to attack Obama until retards started shouting out "Muslim" and "terrorist' and saying Obama was an "Arab."

So, yellers/mutants:

How do you plan on helping the cause tomorrow? By further so embarrassing leaders and writers into stopping all attacks on Obama?

Brilliant.

You tell 'em, Ace!

re: #45 Hard Right

Fot you. :)
//

A chicken in every Fot?

re: #14 ploome hineni

..did Mr Odinga deny being a muslim also?

Doesn't matter what Odinga claims to believe. His actions show him to be a true heir of Stalin.

re: #6 Charles

Charles: Thanks for making the "newcommentbody" text window a little smaller. It eliminates the need for scrolling to get to the "post this comment" button

re: #35 Tigger2005

My wife talked to he "VERY LIBERAL" sister today in New Jersey. She's voting McCain. Hooo Raah !

re: #27 MandyManners

The Germans are bombing Pearl Harbor on AMC.

Please, Mandy, don't bring up that movie. It was the historically illiterate Hollywood movie, per excellance.

Non- Techie here, but for what it is worth I am running the Google Chrome Beta and I have zero issues with this and other sites. Seems faster.

But then again, I am the guy that they make "Do not use this hairdryer in the Shower" tags for.

re: #27 MandyManners

The Germans are bombing Pearl Harbor on AMC.

Sorry, Mandy. Had to down ding you. You got my hopes up. I clicked over expecting Animal House.

/I up'd you back. I wasn't that hurt, after all.

CNBC is doing a bunch of Euro weenie interviews about how they are abandoning America investments and going to UAE for a more secure investment. They are asking that the US stop the slide in the markets by closing them down like they are about to do. Boy, It makes me feel bad that The Europeans don't like us anymore. I freaking broken hearten over it all. I really am. Can someone console me?

re: #48 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

A chicken in every Fot?

Fot mama?

re: #7 Palandine

I think that is probably the most disturbing scene in any movie I have ever watched.

I really hate that scene.

re: #35 Tigger2005

I'm scheduled for a rather upscale neighborhood in my area early next week. I rode around the community on my Sporty today, and there are M/P signs everywhere. Looks like people of means are scared sh*tless of Obama. Anyway, should be a much more pleasant experience than what I've encountered so far. Mostly outright rudeness and disdain from BHO supporters. As I've said before in here, I'm beginning to feel like a stranger in a strange land.

re: #25 karmic_inquisitor

Charles -

About 4 different times today I have tried to get to lgf with no luck. The title appears on the page title bar but the browser is blanked and the status in the lower left hand corner sits at a URL with "sharethis" in it. No problem getting to other sites - just lgf hung while waiting on that url. I am on firefox 3.0.3 ubuntu. FYI

I have firebug installed in my FF3.03, and I routinely get "error" warnings for the "sharethis" widget.

re: #47 Sharmuta

Check out the comments. Lots of people saying it's all right to ally with these type of people for the greater good. Reminds me of those who don't mind allying themselves with fascists against jihadis. They can't seem to wrap their minds around the fact that such alliances can create greater harm to their causes.

re: #57 ploome hineni

#21 NoSubmission

why are we allowing this in our country?

I have no idea. There is no other religion parade in NYC.

Go ahead, Ace. That deserves a link.

re: #3 godfrey

Obama's Kenya Ghosts

Not ghosts. Real, live, dictators.

obama's dear cousin odinga looks like a bloody eyed beast.
why isn't obama speaking out abt. ethnic cleansing and genocide.
his silence is sinister.
especially when he appears to be a civilized guy in a nice suit running for potus.

re: #21 NoSubmission

Repost for an open thread:
Muslim Day Parade 2008 NYC.

Thanks, I commented on blog

Hmmm.. whenever I try to do "reply" or "quote" it just sends me back to the main page. I pushed the '!' button on someone, hope thats not a bad thing.

re: #42 NoSubmission

There was one woman there with a black eye. I hope it wasn't from domestic violence. She did look really beaten down, though.

Muslim?

re: #59 formercorpsman

I think that is probably the most disturbing scene in any movie I have ever watched.

I really hate that scene.

It hits all the points.
*A beautiful day goes horribly wrong
*Rape
*Violence and the response of honorable men to it
*Being in a place where literally no one can hear you scream

It's the Hobbesian idea that life in a state of nature is nasty, brutish, and short. Terrifying. Deliverance is a great film.

re: #72 MandyManners

Muslim?

Yes. They looked like converts.

re: #21 NoSubmission

Repost for an open thread:
Muslim Day Parade 2008 NYC.

Heh.

re: #21 NoSubmission

Repost for an open thread:
Muslim Day Parade 2008 NYC.

hey {NoSub},
i missed the parade today. i couldn't get away. but my friend said you were there. kudos for your hard work and commitment. were there any viewers lined up to watch parade? my friend said some of the jihadis got aggressive.

re: #47 Sharmuta

Sounds good except Kos is presented as a reputable site for thoughtful and fair "liberal" views by MSM. You will never get fair play or a fair hearing, since all conservatives are bigoted, war-mongering, kooks. Does not matter what you say or do kids.

So much for Bill O'Reilly's fantasy about price fixing.

Gasoline price marks biggest drop ever: survey

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States recorded its largest drop ever as consumer demand continued to wane and oil prices slid, a prominent industry analyst said on Sunday.

The national average price for self-serve, regular unleaded gas fell 35.03 cents to $3.3079 a gallon on October 10 from $3.6582 two weeks earlier, according to the nationwide Lundberg Survey.

It was the lowest national average price since March 21, 2008. Since peaking at $4.1124 on July 11, the average cost of a gallon of gas has receded by 80.45 cents. Diesel fuel fell 21 cents to $3.95 a gallon, the first time since March that it has been below $4.00 a gallon.

"Plummeting oil prices and caving gasoline demand have combined to bring the biggest retail gasoline price cut in the history of the market," Trilby Lundberg, who compiles the survey, said in an interview. "We've been doing this 58 years. This is truly the biggest price drop."

I think oil will go a lot lower in the next 6 months.

And that will absolutely destroy Chavez and Dinnerjacket.

re: #70 buzzsawmonkey

[...]
I have not found one single Obama supporter who can give me a clear reason to vote for him that is actually fact-based.
[...]

I've met plenty that are actually interested in socialized medicine. Of course, they don't call it socialized medicine. They gild over that pony and call it "national health care" and other euphemisms. I ask them why they think it would be better and for whatever reason, they refuse to take the blinders off an see what would have to innovation, competition, and overall quality if we ever did shift over to such a system.

re: #71 DisgustingOratory

Hmmm.. whenever I try to do "reply" or "quote" it just sends me back to the main page. I pushed the '!' button on someone, hope thats not a bad thing.

Not the "!" button! Never press the "!" button!

/kidding

re: #65 NoSubmission

I have no idea. There is no other religion parade in NYC.

A political movement, that can claim protection as a religious movement and a religious movement that can claim protection as a political movement. It's a soft drink and floor cleaner in one.

re: #67 nyc redneck

obama's dear cousin odinga looks like a bloody eyed beast.
why isn't obama speaking out abt. ethnic cleansing and genocide.
his silence is sinister.
especially when he appears to be a civilized guy in a nice suit running for potus.(emphasis added by DF)

Just like Vladimir Putin. The monster and radicals have learned how to dress to conceal their true nature. Alinsky taught them well, but I'm not fooled.

re: #71 DisgustingOratory

Refresh, log out, log in, clear cookies, refresh your drink, drink deeply, get drunk, fall asleep, knock your drink on your keyboard, ruin your computer, buy a new one tomorrow, log back on, everything will be fine then.

I'm with you, buzz. But don't discount the utility of vacant brain-pans. They can be filled. I keep sending excerpts and links to moonbat relatives, and if nothing else, it quiets them. If they still pull the lever for Obama, it will be with a vague sense of dread. Maybe then they won't put up much of a fuss if he gets pulled down in a RICO investigation, or gets impeached, or whatever. He is bad, bad news, and even the most vacuous ideologue can be brought up short by the sheer extent of his associations.

re: #74 NoSubmission

Yes. They looked like converts.

I'm beginning to think that the only reason a man would convert to Islam is for the power he would have over his wife.

re: #76 nyc redneck

hey {NoSub},
i missed the parade today. i couldn't get away. but my friend said you were there. kudos for your hard work and commitment. were there any viewers lined up to watch parade? my friend said some of the jihadis got aggressive.

There was nearly no one stopping to watch the parade. It went down Madison Avenue for 20 blocks and the only others there were the protesters and the tourists that got caught up in the spectacle of it all. A ghost of a parade, really. Was less than half the size of last years. I saw your friend. She's a very cool lady!

And yes, there was some aggressiveness. The cops did an amazing job.

I just spoke to an old friend in Canada ....business man, fifty-ish, successful. A sailor who has seen much of the world. As conversations are wont to do with me - especially lately - the topic turned to politics. The Middle East. Israel. The Canadian Human Rights Commission. Obama and the upcoming election.

"Obama", he says, "will be the best thing that has ever happened to America; maybe the world will begin to look kindly upon your country once again."

Without boring all of you with the ensuing fireworks, I will tell you that he has never heard of Ezra Levant, thinks the CHRC is the same thing as the ACLU and that it serves a noble purpose, that he laughed out loud when I used the words "caliphate" and "sharia law" and came right out and called bullshit on England now recognizing the rulings of sharia courts. He respectfully declined my suggestion to read a Melanie Philips column or two. He has never heard of Acorn, Rezko, Ayers or of any -ANY - of the controversy surrounding Obama. He is barely aware that the man even has an opponent. When I asked him where he got his news, he said that CNN was the only thing he watched.

After several long silences, he asked: "Umm .... is there anything else in your life, or has this fanaticism obscured everything else?"

Somehow I think he regrets the call.

/just had to share

re: #68 lifeofthemind
Thanks! It was fun. YOu would have enjoyed it.

re: #71 DisgustingOratory

maybe it has something to do with your nic?

re: #85 MandyManners

I'm beginning to think that the only reason a man would convert to Islam is for the power he would have over his wife.

There were a lot of converts there.

re: #85 MandyManners

And the buzzing prayer rugs. Insh'allah, even the infidel dogs will open wide their eyes in wonder at that!

Wells Fargo will be buying out Wachovia after all.

Wells Fargo wins Fed approval on Wachovia bid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Sunday gave its stamp of approval to the takeover of Wachovia Corp by Wells Fargo & Co of San Francisco, which had battled New York-based Citigroup for ownership of the wounded bank.

In an unusual Sunday afternoon announcement that appeared timed to precede the opening of shaky global financial markets, the Fed said it already had been in touch with the U.S. Department of Justice and banking regulators about the deal.

"Those agencies have indicated that they have no objection to the approval of the proposal," the Fed assured.

The fight between Wells Fargo and Citigroup over Wachovia, which is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was acrimonious right up to the point when Citigroup finally backed out last Thursday.

So the deal is done. That takes care of one more shaky part of the mechanism.

re: #71 DisgustingOratory

Hmmm.. whenever I try to do "reply" or "quote" it just sends me back to the main page. I pushed the '!' button on someone, hope thats not a bad thing.

It sounds like you're clicking the 'reply/quote' button before the page has finished loading. If you're using Internet Explorer, the Javascript parser is dog slow. It chugs away in the background long after the browser seems to indicate the page is all loaded. If you click one of those buttons before the page is really all loaded and set up, that's what happens.

Install Firefox. Take the plunge. You'll never look back.

Happened again - tried to hit the next thread and got hung on w.sharethis.com .....

re: #93 Charles

Okay, yeah. That's a good answer too.

re: #93 Charles

It sounds like you're clicking the 'reply/quote' button before the page has finished loading. If you're using Internet Explorer, the Javascript parser is dog slow. It chugs away in the background long after the browser seems to indicate the page is all loaded. If you click one of those buttons before the page is really all loaded and set up, that's what happens.

Install Firefox. Take the plunge. You'll never look back.

Yes, indeed. Firefox all the way.

re: #27 MandyManners

The Germans are bombing Pearl Harbor on AMC.

Wait for the Lutherans flying planes into the twin towers.

re: #94 karmic_inquisitor

It sits "Looking up w.sharethis.com..." Back browser button to get back here via cache.

re: #88 NoSubmission

Thanks! It was fun. YOu would have enjoyed it.

Next time please send me a reminder to show up.

So far so good in the overseas markets tonight

RPT-GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks rebound in Asia on banks' rescue hopes

HONG KONG, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Australian and South Korean shares bounced on Monday after policymakers around the world took increasingly bold steps to staunch the bleeding in financial markets, including guarantees on bank desposits and directly injecting capital into banks.

The euro climbed while U.S. stock futures .SPc1 were up 4 percent, pointing to a sharply higher open on Wall Street, after the U.S. government said it would take stakes in banks and European leaders hatched a plan that included buying debt that banks issue, both aimed at freeing the flow of precious credit.

re: #47 Sharmuta

Ace is pissed!

You tell 'em, Ace!

Yes, 1% of McCain's supporters are assholes. When you're running a campaign involving hundreds of thousands of people all over the country and drawing tens of thousands to rallies, how are you supposed to keep every asshole away or quiet? And how do we know some of these people aren't Mobys? I wouldn't put that past Obama supporters.

We are being held to an insanely high standard by the media and by people who have no standards whatsoever. The Obama campaign gave money to ACORN and has not denounced its efforts at committing voter fraud. Members of the Obama campaign are involved in efforts to intimidate and chill freedom of speech. The media and the Obama campaign worked hand in hand to smear Sarah Palin and her family. Ugliness and nastiness and sheer nuttiness abound in the Obama campaign--it's their modus operandi--but the media reports none of it, while a few idiot McCain supporters get splashed all over the news.

I'm sorry, Ace, I think you're misdirecting your anger. It should be directed at the media for refusing to cover this campaign fairly, and at Obama for conducting an ugly, corrupt, despicable campaign.

re: #43 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Yeah. Fot. What are you going to make out of? Huh!?

Fot? Pettle!

re: #87 pink freud

"after several long silences, he asked: "Umm .... is there anything else in your life, or has this fanaticism obscured everything else?"

How insulting! I'm sorry a friend wasn't more understanding that this is very important to you.

re: #99 lifeofthemind

Next time please send me a reminder to show up.

Send me your email address and I'll get you on the list.

re: #86 NoSubmission

GLAD it was smaller.

re: #70 buzzsawmonkey

"..they have to vote for him because he is black..."

I'm getting versions of that too. "It would be nice to elect a black guy..." my doctor(!?) said. Another popular notion is that government just won't "change" unless the Democrats are allowed "their turn." There is also a variant of this derangement among far-lefties whereby some people see defeating any Republican candidate as a victory against Bush, who has beaten them so many times.
People seem to contemplate this campaign emotionally more than I have noticed in the past.

re: #70 buzzsawmonkey

Sometimes living in a "red state" (TEXAS) really sucks. All we get are the BS Obama commercials. I'm now throwing sponges at the TV. I can't afford to buy new ones.

re: #47 Sharmuta

Thanks for posting that.

re: #98 karmic_inquisitor

It sits "Looking up w.sharethis.com..." Back browser button to get back here via cache.

I don't think sharethis.com is actually the problem - it was just the last thing the browser was loading before the real issue.

Some of the advertisement servers were acting a bit sluggish earlier, and I think that's what caused what you saw.

Safari's Network Timeline is great for diagnosing these kinds of problems.

re: #103 SummerSong

I've lost most of my tolerance for people who live with their head in the sand. You're right, though ...an insensitive thing for a "friend" to say. They seem to be self-weeding these days.

/thanks for responding on this nearly dead thread, SummerSong. You guys are the best.

re: #87 pink freud

he said that CNN was the only thing he watched.

The only thing? Who, really is the fanatic? I've watched their ridiculously edited channel. I've always read several news stories before I saw it on their channel. They always leave critical facts out.

re: #109 Charles

I don't think sharethis.com is actually the problem - it was just the last thing the browser was loading before the real issue.

Some of the advertisements were acting sluggish earlier, and I think that's what caused what you saw.

Safari's Network Timeline is great for diagnosing these kinds of problems.

FYI - Just blew away my cache and cookies, closed the browser and tried again. Same hang point from what I observe on the screen, but the hang was for about 15 seconds and then got through. Then I saw your note, which tells me I didn't need to try that.

BTW - If I had used the terms "blew my cache and cookies" in conversation 20 years ago, people would have assumed I was dating girl scouts. Change!

It is like the Republicans are expected to act like responsible parents and if they make the slightest mistake or don't act with complete selflessness they are called bad.

But when the Democrats act like spoiled rotten selfish children they are told they are right.

re: #100 3 wood

So far so good in the overseas markets tonight

RPT-GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks rebound in Asia on banks' rescue hopes

As much as I hate the socialist aspects of these rescue efforts, I think it's something that has to be done. Look what happened the last time there was a global economic collapse. We have to think long term now. The socialists have bided their time and slowly wormed their way into the heart of our universities, our government, and our financial system. You have to give them credit, they don't give up. Now it's our turn. Will we throw in the towel or will we continue to fight?

Germany is getting into the bail out business too:

Germany to use up to $135 billion for banks: report

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Germany's government will set up a fund to provide as much as 100 billion euros ($135 billion) of equity capital to help the nation's banks through the economic turmoil, Reuters reported Sunday, citing the daily Handelsblatt.
The Wall Street Journal had reported Saturday that Germany was preparing a plan to bail out its financial sector -- not long after saying its banks didn't need such support.
Handelsblatt, citing sources close to the talks on the matter, said that the $137 billion fund was part of a bigger package, valued at as much as 400 billion euros. That package also will include interbank guarantees or direct loans, the German paper said.
The move mirrors similar action around the world by the U.K., France, Australia and others.

Should be an interesting week on Wall Street.

re: #114 Tigger2005

As much as I hate the socialist aspects of these rescue efforts, I think it's something that has to be done. Look what happened the last time there was a global economic collapse. We have to think long term now. The socialists have bided their time and slowly wormed their way into the heart of our universities, our government, and our financial system. You have to give them credit, they don't give up. Now it's our turn. Will we throw in the towel or will we continue to fight?

It's this or total wipe out.

In the long run I think this is healthy cause it's flushing some real bad practices out of the system (hopefully). But we are in for a tough go nover the less.

We lost something like 4 trillion in market value wealth over the last several weeks.

re: #110 pink freud

I've lost most of my tolerance for people who live with their head in the sand. You're right, though ...an insensitive thing for a "friend" to say. They seem to be self-weeding these days.

/thanks for responding on this nearly dead thread, SummerSong. You guys are the best.

Since when is doing reaserch on the candidates fanaticism? I have little tolerance for idiots anymore-especially when they project it onto me whil absolving themselves.

re: #93 Charles

Thank you. I'm already halfway done with Fat Bastard Vegetarian's fix so I'll finish that first. This computer is 10 years old.

re: #56 Egfrow

CNBC is doing a bunch of Euro weenie interviews about how they are abandoning America investments and going to UAE for a more secure investment. They are asking that the US stop the slide in the markets by closing them down like they are about to do. Boy, It makes me feel bad that The Europeans don't like us anymore. I freaking broken hearten over it all. I really am. Can someone console me?

Well, I don't know about that, but I want to point out to some well-respected posters - who thought that banning short-selling was the tonic for all that ailed us - that the average financial stock (the ones that the ban applied to) has fallen 31% since the ban on short-selling was enacted.

The problem isn't the shorts; it's the unbridled irresponsibility that has infected our culture. Sorry if this sounds cruel, but prosperity isn't created by irresponsible slobs sucking off the government; it's created by productive citizens working hard, living responsibly, saving, creating and investing wisely.

Your home isn't a piggy bank. If it has doubled in value in the last five years, chances are that it's less - not more - likely that it will double in value in the next five years.

When you invest in the "stock market," your best bet is to invest in companies that have strong balance sheets, and that have great prospects for earning large amounts of money in the future (the past has already been priced into the stock). If you chase a dot com or biotech or whatever else is currently fashionable, chances are you will end up losing your money.

Above all else, look at your paycheck. How much do you make? If you're spending more than that, you're on the road to financial ruin. If you're spending as much as that, you're on the road to eventual ruin. For G-d's sake, cut back on all the unnecessary shit, and start saving!

re: #86 NoSubmission

There was nearly no one stopping to watch the parade. It went down Madison Avenue for 20 blocks and the only others there were the protesters and the tourists that got caught up in the spectacle of it all. A ghost of a parade, really. Was less than half the size of last years. I saw your friend. She's a very cool lady!

And yes, there was some aggressiveness. The cops did an amazing job.

my friend said one of the patriot gals threw a cup of coffee in an aggressive moslem man's face. the assh*le had called her a whore.
he's lucky he only got the coffee in his rop face

re: #99 lifeofthemind

Next time please send me a reminder to show up.

i'm sorry i didn't alert you. we really need to keep each other in the neighborhood posted. i thought of calling you but for some reason i figured you knew.

I watched "The Speech" today with my eyes closed and tried to imagine that Roland Reagen was speaking live to the American People to see if it felt like it we relevant to today's modern problems. I found it to be a resounding YES! With the exception of a few small specifics was eerily and overwhelming spot on like he was speaking from beyond the Grave. It gave me chills and moved me. If anyone has time try it out.

re: #122 Egfrow

Sorry, I typo'd the Gipper's name.

re: #121 nyc redneck

i'm sorry i didn't alert you. we really need to keep each other in the neighborhood posted. i thought of calling you but for some reason i figured you knew.

I had heard got wrapped up in eating sleeping and walking a furry friend, all good things.

re: #109 Charles

I've seen this problem with allot of different sites and feel it's a real world issue that can effect the perception of a site's performance. I wonder if it's possible to write a script object that reads the page code that loads these external ad sites and tries to do a timed performance test to see if hangs up. If it detects sluggish load from that resource the script can remove it temporarily from the site. I think this might be possible to do.