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by BooMan
Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 02:31:12 PM EST

My mailserver appears to be broken and it has been broken for quite a while. This means people are not getting emails when they try to reset their password, and new users are not getting their email that provides them with instructions on how to sign up.

I'll get the mailserver fixed as fast as possible but in the meantime:

1) If you have created an account in the last month or so and did not get your email with password, send me an email at admin@boomantribune.com and tell me the exact username you selected. I will reset your password and sent you an email letting you know what it is.

2) If you have been logged out and cannot remembers your password, follow the instructions for 1) above.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience. This is an open thread. Do you put ketchup on mooseburgers? How about pickles?

Open Thread | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Friday Foto Flogging Reminder (4.00 / 2)

A quick reminder that the theme for the foto flogging this Friday will be red ... anything that comes to mind.

And if you don't have any red, no worries - post any color you want. :)

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by AndiF (ferguson1461 at gmail dot com) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 05:01:30 PM EST

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was just reading at www.sfgate.com that not only did it take Palin 6 years to get a degree in Journalism, she attended five different schools to do it. She also switched majors several times before settling on Journalism. While a Journalism student, she did not work for any radio or tv stations. Her potential for being a heartbeat away from the presidency is really scaring me.

There's a sense that people in America aren't getting the truth. - George W. Bush (Gee, ya think?)

by Kamakhya (onyx at earthlink dot net) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 06:21:36 PM EST

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So many books to ban, so little time.

by Bob In Pacifica on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 07:31:28 PM EST
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In addition, I keep getting an IE "can't open site" message here, and have gotten it for the last two days. Did you change site code recently? Something done recently is choking in my browser. (And yes, I know, who still uses IE. But hey, I do, and get over it.)

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 02:49:59 PM EST

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you're the second person to tell me that. I'll have to look into it.

by BooMan on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 02:55:44 PM EST
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Make that three. I have switched to Firefox at home, but can't at work.

"Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not." George Bernard Shaw.

by benjamink on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 03:10:27 PM EST
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Four. But it seems to be working now.

by Bob In Pacifica on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 07:12:14 PM EST
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Boo, the same thing was happening to my site, The Liberal Journal. It was happening for days until I removed the code for that box "Headlines from the Progressive Blogosphere". Now it's golden.

by liberaljournal on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 03:45:48 PM EST
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thanks. i just deleted it. hopefully that works.

by BooMan on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 03:59:34 PM EST
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Yes, it just cleared up my problem with that thingy-ma-jingy. Sorry, I don't have the right technical language but that damn box has finally disappeared.

The frog pond has become so funny I think it's better than any anti-depressive I've heard of.

Laughter is the voice of God.

All members of the frog pond are special.

by Daredevil Don on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 04:54:12 PM EST
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was having that problem too (none / 0)

at work ... using IE ... blech.

parvum opus

by olivia on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 05:17:04 PM EST
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Interesting MSM speech analysis (none / 0)

One of the best MSM commentaries I've seen on Palin's speech appears, unpredictably enough, in Crain's Chicago Business magazine. Columnist Greg Hinz had a flashback to the Nixon years, what with the heavy attacks coupled with the lack of content. He also rather insightfully recognized that the speech marks a shift in campaign strategy:

Yes, she was tougher and icier than an arctic breeze, a stance that some GOP strategists privately acknowledge was designed to make up for her lack of experience. She even ridiculed the Chicagoan who would be president for spending the first few years of his post-graduate life not making money but working as an organizer with laid-off steelworkers and their families on the Southeast Side.
So much for nobility. But the attack is a good tip off as to what's really occurring in St. Paul this week.
What's really occurring is that John McCain's Republicans are at least partially dumping their brand -- experience -- in favor of Mr. Obama's trademark change-and-reform. And the transition has had bumps.
Team McCain really didn't have a choice but to change its message. The experience schtick "wasn't working," former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson conceded in a brief chat during the week.
The media caught on right away to the disconnect between Mr. McCain's months of ridiculing Mr. Obama as dangerously inexperienced and his vice-presidential selection of a 20-month governor of a small state. It's been asking lots and lots of questions.

The whole article is worth a read for the impressions of a Midwestern business-oriented moderate. It should be fun watching McCain's desperate attempt to snatch the "change" meme away from Obama through the intervention of a rather deceitful and unpleasant woman. What a man.

Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense." --Former Nixon counsel John Dean

by DaveW on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 03:53:21 PM EST

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Look who went to prison today...frog march...

http://news.aol.com/article/disgraced-lobbyist-gets-4-years-in/161401

by americanforliberty on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 05:57:11 PM EST

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Yeah, but only for four years. Imagine if the FBI took a little time off framing Ivins to look into the Gus Boulis murder.

by Bob In Pacifica on Thu Sep 4th, 2008 at 07:30:14 PM EST
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