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Friday February 25, 2005 · 12:38 PM PST

2005/02/25 · 12:38

I have an idea for a Social Security op-ed cartoon, but I have absolutely no artistic talent to make it actually exist. So, if anyone out there can draw but is lacking ideas, please consider stealing this one: Read More

It could not be clearer

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Wednesday October 13, 2004 · 9:28 PM PDT

2004/10/13 · 21:28

Debate, 10/13/2004

BUSH: Gosh, I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations.

Press conference, 3/13/2002

BUSH: ...I'll repeat what I said: I truly am not that concerned about [Osama Bin Laden].

Dear Jane Mitakides

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Sunday April 04, 2004 · 11:16 PM PDT

2004/04/04 · 23:16

I wasted $40 on your campaign today. I wish I could get it back, since it was given under the misapprehension that you were still advertising on dKos because you had enough sense not to listen to the howling of the right-wing loonies. I thought you had enough sense not to believe that an ad on a website meant you endorsed every posting on that site. I thought that by staying the course, and not blowing with the winds of the latest imaginary scandal-of-the-moment, you were showing yourself to be a reliable statesperson of steady character.

Maybe, I thought, just maybe you had read the comment, and considered the real issues behind it. "Why are we paying mercenaries $1000 a day when our own troops are on food stamps?" I imagined you might be thinking. "When I'm elected to Congress, I will damn sure be finding out!"

Obviously, I was wrong.

I know you won't give my money back, so use it well, and may you win your race and help the Dems take back Ohio and the country.

But one day, you will need my help again. And you won't get it. I have a long memory, and I won't forget you.

Welcome!

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Sunday April 04, 2004 · 7:47 AM PDT

2004/04/04 · 07:47

Sorry about the brief downtime. It was not a vast right-wing conspiracy, merely a server administration error during the changeover.

Welcome to the new, more powerful than ever, dailykos server cluster. The place should be quite a bit speedier, assuming we haven't made any other mistakes. If you see anything weird, please let us know. There's always something else to forget when you move a big site like this.

Update [2004-4-4 13:58:24 by rusty]: Some people are having trouble seeing the diaries. If you're getting errors going to diary links, try clearing your browser's cache. The exact procedure for that varies by browser, but it should be somewhere in "Tools" or "Preferences." Or check in the help for "cache."

Thanks for your bug reports. :-)

Yeesh

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Wednesday March 03, 2004 · 12:24 AM PST

2004/03/03 · 00:24

Sorry about the piss-poor site performance today folks. Now that the nightly stats have run, it's all become clear. About half of the total hits to the site in this young month have come from one poorly calibrated web crawler. 409,437 hits, to be precise. In two days. Yeah.

Now, dKos has got some horsepower to spare, but not that much, and Scoop uses some assumptions about "normal" user behavior to improve performance, which search crawlers blow all to hell. The bot is now blocked in every way I could think of, and things seem to be returning to normal already. The bot's authors have already gotten a message about it, and I'm sure it was a mistake so no harassment needed for them.

And now back to our regularly scheduled carping about what a limp noodle Kerry is.

This is pretty foul

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Tuesday February 24, 2004 · 5:43 PM PST

2004/02/24 · 17:43

Adbusters goes Jew hunting. Anyone who considered Adbusters a progressive organization might want to think again.

Democratic Convention "Free Speech Zones"

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Friday February 20, 2004 · 7:05 PM PST

2004/02/20 · 19:05

I thought the other side were the ones in favor of "free speech zones." They say they're open to input. Please provide some.

Dean Angry?

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Monday December 15, 2003 · 1:31 PM PST

2003/12/15 · 13:31

Not angry enough, according to the Truman theory. Don't know if I buy it, but the article's very informative about Truman/Dewey and the '48 election.

9/11 hijacker Atta trained in Iraq?

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Sunday December 14, 2003 · 2:51 AM PST

2003/12/14 · 02:51

That's what the Telegraph says.

Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist.
Details of Atta's visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service...
In the memo, Habbush reports that Atta "displayed extraordinary effort" and demonstrated his ability to lead the team that would be "responsible for attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy".

dKos updates

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Wednesday December 10, 2003 · 4:29 PM PST

2003/12/10 · 16:29

I just changed the way dKos works behind the scenes to (hopefully) make it more efficient. It all seems to be working properly, but I can't test everything, so if you run into any strangeness or bugs, please let me know.

Also, I'll be updating the database later on, at a less busy time, which will require some downtime. I'll try to schedule it beforehand so it's not a big surprise.

dKos issues

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Friday December 05, 2003 · 12:04 PM PST

2003/12/05 · 12:04

Just an FYI for anyone who catches this before it scrolls off the diary page -- dKos is having some database troubles today, and there may be unannounced outages from time to time while I try to figure out what's wrong with it. I apologize in advance, and remind you all to do your writing in an editor and paste in when you want to post so as not to lose your stuff. :-)

Bribery in the Medicare vote?

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Thursday December 04, 2003 · 7:38 PM PST

2003/12/04 · 19:38

That's what Slate is saying. They quote Robert Novak in the Sun-Times:

On the House floor, Nick Smith was told business interests would give his son $100,000 in return for his father's vote. When he still declined, fellow Republican House members told him they would make sure Brad Smith never came to Congress. After Nick Smith voted no and the bill passed, [Rep.] Duke Cunningham of California and other Republicans taunted him that his son was dead meat.

How about that.

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