ok, all is well now

must get used to these burps without pullin a hand muscle

does this post make it?

*hey blogger, we're up here"


nope, getting refused altoghter (using ecto)

on edit: ok. it took. but not getting posted to the public page. index isn't posting because of this crap --> 001 java.net.ConnectException: Connection refusedblog/61/45/11/fieldsofpoopy/archives/2006_10_01_fieldsofpoopy_archive.html

it's saving them as draft, even though i get the same error after 'save as draft' is pressed.

on LAST EDIT: all is well in blogger land. i need to learn how to accept the fact of life that computers burb once in a while.

WHERE ARE MY POSTS FROM TODAY???

I'M GETTING FED UP WITH BLOGGER CHEWING UP MY POSTS

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN?
001 java.net.ConnectException: Connection refusedblog/61/45/11/fieldsofpoopy/archives/2006_10_01_fieldsofpoopy_archive.html

AND NOW IT'S DUPLICATING THIS POST.
BLOGGER, YOUI'RE SCREWY AGAIN TODAY KIDS. ENOUGH ALREADY.

WHERE ARE MY POSTS FROM TODAY???

I'M GETTING FED UP WITH BLOGGER CHEWING UP MY POSTS

my first flickr post using ecto

where's my image at?

on edit: oh THERE you are

got it!

in no time flat too. i feel so incapable of holding my own when it comes to html. i used to be good at it, but then they started to do magic with it and that was too much for my blood.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

i'm having trouble getting a good login on blgger

from flickr. i want to be able to send picts to my blog on blogger, but it keeps saying that it couldn't log in. so i'm testing ecto.

cheney should be tried for war crimes

Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding

--story

Waterboarding Historically Controversial
In 1947, the U.S. Called It a War Crime; in 1968, It Reportedly Caused an Investigation

it's my hope that with this scumbag running his mouth may yet give the ICC ammunition to use in a war crimes trial.

HALLELUJAH

Supreme Court of New Jersey's holding: "Denying committed same-sex couples the financial and social benefits and privileges given to their married heterosexual counterparts bears no substantial relationship to a legitimate governmental purpose. The Court holds that under the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, committed samesex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits by opposite-sex couples under the civil marriage statutes. The name to be given to the statutory scheme that provides full rights and benefits to samesex couples, whether marriage or some other term, is a matter left to the democratic process."

--decision

i know why they had to use the 'plan' they used

it was because they had to keep the ones who are fighting worrying about us here. they were fighting for our freedom, not iraqi freedom. now they're told that they're fighting for iraqi democracy, quite a different goal.

Letter of the WeeQ(tm)

In the Register's Sept. 28 editorial, "Torturing American Values," you allude to the belief that our principles of justice set us apart from others who do not take our principles seriously.

Any competent student of history can point to numerous instances when we didn't take these principles very seriously either.

Our numerous broken treaties with the many and various Native American peoples can attest to this fact. We also had to fight the Civil War in order to free the slaves, long after most other advanced countries of the world outlawed the practice.

- Richard Crosser, Iowa Falls.

Letter of the Day

i always luv reading letters from the reichstad brownshirt brigade types, and occasionally will single one out for massive adulation by all my fans (not you silly),and this is one of those times.

from bob maretin in ankeny - hm, i know another person who lives in ankeny that would have the same ideology about a lot of things political that are present with how i think today's writer/winner appears.

Since the election season started, your editorial page has continuously gone downhill in quality. Everyone knows that your ideology slants sharply to the left. You support the Democratic Party with rare exceptions. We have learned to live with your bias, but the quality of your editorial page is dismal and unacceptable.

--attribution

kudos?

anyone who uses 'kudos' like moi, i'll have their head. a letter writer writes:

Hooray for David Yepsen - he hit the nail on the head. In his Oct. 10 column, he correctly defines the current political ads and suggests eight alternatives that make a lot of sense ("Culver, Nussle Need to Develop New Game Plans"). I bet there are tens of thousands of central Iowa voters who agree.

Pay attention, Jim Nussle, Chet Culver, Jeff Lamberti and Leonard Boswell. There is a lesson there for all of you to learn and learn quick. Kudos to Yepsen and the Register.

his name is james e. wise, from des moines.

-=-attribution

see what happens when you go negative?

it backfires!

Democrat Deval Patrick has a commanding 27-point lead in the governor's race as independent voters abandon Republican Kerry Healey because of her negative attacks, according to a new poll released today by 7NEWS and Suffolk University.

--stpru

happy halloween

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/274464845/

do as i say, not as i do

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in the war on terror, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Monday.

--story

pathetic leadership.

the proof is in the pudding

The WP mentions a news conference held by the United Nations investigator on torture where he said some countries try to invalidate criticism of how they handle detainees by pointing out they are merely following the example set by the United States. "Today, many other governments are kind of saying, 'But why are you criticizing us; we are not doing something different than what the United States is doing,' " he said.

--story

the GOP Desperate Moment of the Day(tm)

WASHINGTON - Chris Carney wasn't in Congress in 2002, never voted for the resolution authorizing President Bush to go to war in Iraq and yet the Pennsylvania Republican Party accuses the Democrat of helping to start the war.

"Chris Carney failed our nation once ... now Chris Carney attacks the same war he helped start," reads the mailing sent to voters. "Don't give Chris Carney the chance to fail us again."

Carney, a former intelligence analyst at the Pentagon, is challenging Republican Rep. Don Sherwood. A lieutenant commander in the Navy reserves, Carney dismissed the mailing as a sign of desperation and argued that Bush - with Congress' blessing - took the country to war.

Sherwood voted to give the president the authority to use military force to oust Saddam Hussein.

"How can they dare attack my service? The accusation is that I'm responsible for the war. That is ridiculous," Carney said. "The intelligence community consists of 16 different agencies. I was but one voice in one agency."

--story

Quote of the Day

(in talking about karl rove) from CBHagman

The brain may function, but in the service of promoting incompetence, vainglory, greed, and corruption.

The mouth may move, but the words are dead and empty.

The heart may beat, but it is lifeless.

Exploiting blocs of religious voters, Rove has no faith himself. Vicious in "victory," vindictive in mind-set, Rove has helped midwife what could well be the nadir of America's role in the world. The country remains a superpower, but the groundwork is laid for unspeakable disaster -- in the form of massive debt, national security risks, societal upheaval -- that is already evident in some areas.

There's a difference between success and getting what you want, and it would appear most in the Bush administration are oblivious to that fact, perhaps Rove most of all.

History will judge this empty and loathsome man very harshly indeed.

FOLEY GATE

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley made friends with a wide circle of teenaged House of Representatives pages, then singled out "hot" boys to write to, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The newspaper said it had identified four more former pages who said they were sexually solicited by Foley, who has resigned since the scandal broke last month.

One former page, who was not identified, said Foley sent him e-mails when he was 16 asking about "my roommates, if I ever saw them naked." Later, the former page said Foley hinted about a job opportunity "because I was a hot boy," the newspaper quoted him as saying.

Two years later, the page, now 22, said, he wrote Foley to ask about hotels in Washington. "You could always stay at my place. I'm always here, I'm always lonely, and I'm always up for oral sex," he quoted the disgraced former member of Congress as saying.

--story