=^.^=\\\\\/ polyreal

heh indeed

2009-12-03T17:59:26Z

HEH: Did you hear the one about Washington lecturing Afghans on corruption?

quote of the day

2009-12-01T09:31:20Z

That’s because it’s not because of how we inhibit them politically that liberals hate us; they hate us for our freedom.

We can see this in the current health care debate. Liberals argue they want to give everybody free health care — completely free! — and think this should be a simple argument to get people to hand over control to them and the government. They can almost feel that sweet, sweet government control in their grubby little hands, and it’s inconceivable to them that anyone would be against their generosity. But then the conservatives come and muddy the waters by bringing up the liberty issue. And the liberals react to it like a vampire to a cross (not that liberals react nicely to crosses either).

“No! Not liberty!” they screech. “Liberty means you die in the street without health care! Curse liberty! Those who want liberty are evil hatemongers! Nasty, nasty liberty! It burns!” - *

ookala in the juleland

2009-11-30T20:53:42Z

climate change debacle, part 7465656556

2009-11-29T19:00:22Z

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building. - *

quote of the day

2009-11-29T08:36:06Z

"all art is banishment" - otto dix.

six... trillion dollars!

2009-11-28T19:24:05Z

One gimmick makes the new entitlement spending appear smaller by not opening the spigot until late in the official 10-year budget window (2010–2019). Correcting for that gimmick in the Senate version, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) estimates, “When all this new spending occurs” — i.e., from 2014 through 2023 — “this bill will cost $2.5 trillion over that ten-year period.”

Another gimmick pushes much of the legislation’s costs off the federal budget and onto the private sector by requiring individuals and employers to purchase health insurance. When the bills force somebody to pay $10,000 to the government, the Congressional Budget Office treats that as a tax. When the government then hands that $10,000 to private insurers, the CBO counts that as government spending. But when the bills achieve the exact same outcome by forcing somebody to pay $10,000 directly to a private insurance company, it appears nowhere in the official CBO cost estimates — neither as federal revenues nor federal spending. That’s a sharp departure from how the CBO treated similar mandates in the Clinton health plan. And it hides maybe 60 percent of the legislation’s total costs. When I correct for that gimmick, it brings total costs to roughly $2.5 trillion (i.e., $1 trillion/0.4). …

When we correct for both gimmicks, counting both on- and off-budget costs over the first 10 years of implementation, the total cost of ObamaCare reaches — I’m so sorry about this — $6.25 trillion. That’s not a precise estimate. It’s just far closer to the truth than President Obama and congressional Democrats want the debate to be. - *

quote of the day

2009-11-28T07:08:33Z

“Insuring the uninsured is a moral imperative. The problem is that the Democrats have chosen the worst possible method — a $1 trillion new entitlement of stupefying arbitrariness and inefficiency. The better choice is targeted measures that attack the inefficiencies of the current system one by one — tort reform, interstate purchasing. and taxing employee benefits. It would take 20 pages to write such a bill, not 2,000 — and provide the funds to cover the uninsured without wrecking both U.S. health care and the U.S. Treasury.” But there’s no graft in that approach. *

term of the year

2009-11-26T20:55:08Z

Man-made-up global warming.

quote of the day

2009-11-26T20:50:57Z

“Obama pardoned the presidential turkey today. That was appropriate. I don’t think, however, that he should have bowed to the turkey.”

bloody idiots

2009-11-25T18:16:28Z

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq -- the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com. ...

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors -- and he had the bloody lip to prove it. *

bloody fuken lip... bloody fuken idiots in the white house...

oops

2009-11-25T18:12:10Z

From proteinwisdom.com:

When Bill Sparkman was found hanged two months ago, with the word “Fed” written on his chest in marker, the Left was giddy in blaming Republicans, Michelle Malkin, Michelle Bachman, Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, teabaggers, yadda yadda yadda.

But WAIT!

A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look like a homicide, authorities have concluded.

quote of the day

2009-11-23T05:05:34Z

"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master"... - *

global warming data is fake?

2009-11-23T03:41:12Z

Astonishingly, what appears, at least at first blush, to have emerged is that (a) the scientists have been manipulating the raw temperature figures to show a relentlessly rising global warming trend; (b) they have consistently refused outsiders access to the raw data; (c) the scientists have been trying to avoid freedom of information requests; and (d) they have been discussing ways to prevent papers by dissenting scientists being published in learned journals.
There may be a perfectly innocent explanation. But what is clear is that the integrity of the scientific evidence on which not merely the British Government, but other countries, too, through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, claim to base far-reaching and hugely expensive policy decisions, has been called into question. - *

hahaha

2009-11-23T02:38:47Z

According to the administration’s transparency site several million dollars of stimulus funds have been spent in 28 of Ohio’s 18 Federal Congressional districts. In fact, there have been over 400 Federal Congressional districts created or saved by this site nationwide. - *

snl, actually funny for a change

2009-11-23T02:32:58Z

the orks in the white house

2009-11-20T07:16:16Z

a little known congressman whipes the floor with the tqx cheat obama made the head of our treasury:

BURGESS: Secretary Geithner, you were referencing in your answer to an earlier question about when the financial catastrophe started in September, October of last year, if I understood you correctly, you said that this country did not have the tools to manage that panic. But the inference that I took from that was that there were countries overseas that did have such tools.

Now, I recall a phone call with your predecessor in late October of 2008, when it became public that the United States was pumping monies into the central bank in Europe, and other places. And I suggested that was not the correct thing to be doing. And he said, if the United States is not helping these countries, then they will collapse.
So, which is it?

Were we the savior of those countries that, according to the current president, didn't even like us that much until he took office? Were we the savior of those banks and those countries? Or were we, in fact, incapable of dealing with the problem?

And was that money, in fact, going to foreign banks at that time, in October of last year? This was widely reported in the press.

GEITHNER: Congressman, there is no country that came into this crisis with the tools to manage it effectively. And the basic failure I described here was a common failure.
One thing you saw around the world was...

BURGESS: Well, let me ask you a question. Then how did George Bush cause those countries to be unprepared for a financial crisis?

Glass-Steagall has come up this morning. If I recall, Glass- Steagall was repealed -- that bill was signed by Bill Clinton...

GEITHNER: You're right about that.

BURGESS: ... not George Bush.

GEITHNER: You're absolutely...

BURGESS: And I frankly don't understand. If that's such a good protection, this president's been in office for 10 months. Where's the signed legislation reinstating Glass-Steagall? What...

GEITHNER: Actually, I would not support reinstating Glass-Steagall. And I don't actually believe that the end of Glass-Steagall played a significant role in the cause of this crisis.

heh

2009-11-20T06:57:58Z

UH OH: Sarah Palin approval 47, Barack Obama approval 46. *

halloween

2009-11-20T01:29:39Z

algore, the idiot

2009-11-19T12:48:53Z

Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …
Al (Gore): Yeah, yeah.
Conan: and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that's generated from the core of the earth …
Al: Yeah.
Conan: … to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?
Al: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …- *

why stop here though? how about several... billion degrees?

on the other hand, he got rich, so the joke is on stupid lefties who buy his crap.

quote of the day

2009-11-19T10:01:41Z

"Terrorists ‘Saved or Created’"

liberpolly @ 2009-11-19T01:47:00

2009-11-19T09:47:36Z

liberpolly @ 2009-11-17T14:09:00

2009-11-17T22:10:01Z

seattle should have an art supply store that sells paint only in shades of grey...

lost friends

2009-11-16T22:25:54Z

today i missed ivy first time since her departure. oh how would she enjoy being invited here... hopefully she still does, in some realm...

idiots at powweb

2009-11-16T08:39:53Z

posting this to preserve for posterity the idiocy of technical support at the hosting company powweb.com

Tracking Number: 6501346

Subject: Site is down?

Date Type
11/12/2009 3:02 AM EST Ticket Created
11/12/2009 3:02 AM EST Poul Costinsky contacted PowWeb
Subject: Site is down?

Customer Quote: My site, http://surattle.com/, is down for the last half hour. What gives?

11/12/2009 3:02 AM EST Updated Ticket: Work in Progress
11/12/2009 4:10 AM EST PowWeb contacted Poul Costinsky (Resolved)
Comment: Hello,

Thank you for contacting Support.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. I have checked your website http://surattle.com/ and I was able to access it without any issue. Could you please check it once again after clearing the browser cache and cookies?
If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.
Sincerely,

Shirley Sieffert
Customer Support

11/12/2009 4:58 AM EST Poul Costinsky contacted PowWeb
Customer Quote: it is back up again - it was down for about an half hour.

is this normal for your hosting environment, to have sites down for half hour?

11/12/2009 6:04 AM EST PowWeb contacted Poul Costinsky (Resolved)
Comment: Hello,

Thank you for getting back to us.

I have checked your website: http://surattle.com/ again and I was able to access it. Also, I have checked it with different computers and networks, it coming up fine without any issue. We do not had any issue with our servers. Could you please check it from your end? If the issue persists, please get back to us with the tracert results. In order to do a tracert for your website on your system, please follow the steps given below:
a) Open up the command prompt. The way to do this is, go to the ‘Start’ menu, ‘Run’, then type ‘cmd’ or ‘command’. This will open up a DOS window.
b) In the window, type the following: tracert yourdomainname.com .

If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.
Sincerely,

Shirley Sieffert
Customer Support

11/14/2009 3:25 AM EST Poul Costinsky contacted PowWeb
Customer Quote: here's tracert output after the site is down for the last 20 minutes (the ping works, but the site doesn't come up in a browser):

C:\Users\poul>tracert surattle.com

Tracing route to surattle.com [65.254.250.113]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms #.#.#.1
2 43 ms 44 ms 49 ms tukw-dsl-gw08-200.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.200]

3 77 ms 77 ms 89 ms tukw-agw1.inet.qwest.net [71.217.184.57]
4 53 ms 51 ms 54 ms sjp-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net [67.14.34.10]
5 52 ms 52 ms 52 ms te3-5.mpd01.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.12.
189]
6 53 ms 55 ms 53 ms te4-1.mpd01.sjc04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.1
05]
7 54 ms 58 ms 66 ms te9-1.ccr02.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.0.1
77]
8 143 ms 157 ms 125 ms te2-1.ccr02.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.4
1]
9 108 ms 96 ms 116 ms te4-3.ccr02.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.34
]
10 665 ms 328 ms 448 ms te7-3.ccr02.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.24.
57]
11 128 ms 125 ms 127 ms gi0-2.na21.b006523-1.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [6
6.28.5.214]
12 142 ms 126 ms 132 ms EnduranceInternationalGroup.demarc.cogentco.com
[38.112.14.62]
13 169 ms 154 ms 150 ms 36.225.148.207.static.yourhostingaccount.com [20
7.148.225.36]
14 167 ms 168 ms 188 ms 65-254-250-113.yourhostingaccount.com [65.254.25
0.113]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\poul>

11/14/2009 5:12 AM EST Updated Ticket: Work in Progress
11/14/2009 5:33 AM EST PowWeb contacted Poul Costinsky
Subject: [P06501346000000000] Site is down?

Comment: Hello,

Thank you for getting back to us.
I have asked one of our technical specialists to review your website issue. You should be hearing from this specialist within 24-48 hours. If you have any questions in the meantime, please let us know and be sure to refer to the link http://www.powweb.com/support/ for the quickest service.
Thank you for choosing PowWeb, we appreciate your support.
Sincerely,

Murray Newman
Customer Support

11/14/2009 5:34 AM EST Updated Ticket: Work in Progress
11/14/2009 5:44 AM EST Updated Ticket: Work in Progress
11/14/2009 9:15 AM EST PowWeb contacted Poul Costinsky (Resolved)
Comment: Hello,

We have checked the issue and noticed that the website http://surattle.com/ is loading fine without any issue.
If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.
Sincerely,

Aleta Meyer
Technical Specialist

11/14/2009 12:45 PM EST Poul Costinsky contacted PowWeb
Customer Quote: well, it was not loading at midnight, and not the first time. this is not OK.

11/15/2009 3:05 AM EST Poul Costinsky contacted PowWeb
Customer Quote: it is down again for the last 10 minutes. what are you doing every day around midnight? database maintenance?

11/15/2009 3:27 AM EST Poul Costinsky contacted PowWeb
Customer Quote: half hour later, the site is still down. even html pages and jpg images are unaccessible - i can see them in ftp, but not when i use their http address.

11/15/2009 4:06 AM EST PowWeb contacted Poul Costinsky (Resolved)
Comment: Hello,

Thank you for your reply.
We have checked the issue and was able to access the website http://surattle.com/ without any issue. Please provide us the exact geopgraphical location from where you are trying to access the website and also provide us the tracert results of the website http://surattle.com/ and also http://www.powweb.com/ when you experience the issue so that we can investigate on it further.
If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.
Sincerely,

Aleta Meyer
Technical Specialist

11/16/2009 3:33 AM EST Poul Costinsky contacted PowWeb
Customer Quote: perhaps you will have more success when you "check the issue" when the issue is actually taking place? or perhaps, you can take a look at the log files and see what was happening when the problem was reported? those are the basics of troubleshooting. that is, if you actually intend to troubleshoot the problem, not to get rid of an annoying customer who has the gall to ask why his site is down every day at midnight pacific standard time.

well, now is midnight, and the site is down again.
if you continue to avoid dealing with the issue, i will make this case world famous and your company the laughing stock of internet, i promise.
here's the information you requested:

----------------------------------------------------------
C:\>tracert surattle.com

Tracing route to surattle.com [65.254.250.113]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms #.#.#.1
2 34 ms 34 ms 33 ms tukw-dsl-gw08-200.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.200]

3 33 ms 32 ms 33 ms tukw-agw1.inet.qwest.net [71.217.184.57]
4 60 ms 61 ms 61 ms lap-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net [67.14.22.74]
5 60 ms 59 ms 68 ms te2-2.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.11.
125]
6 61 ms 59 ms 59 ms te3-1.ccr02.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.29.
201]
7 93 ms 95 ms 93 ms te9-8.ccr02.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.3.1
85]
8 108 ms 107 ms 114 ms te3-2.ccr02.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.9
3]
9 118 ms 117 ms 116 ms te4-7.ccr02.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.28.
230]
10 125 ms 129 ms 124 ms te3-3.ccr04.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.1
4]
11 136 ms 130 ms 129 ms te2-4.ccr02.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.9
]
12 132 ms 131 ms 130 ms gi0-2.na21.b006523-1.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [6
6.28.5.214]
13 131 ms 131 ms 129 ms endurance-international-group.demarc.cogentco.co
m [38.99.213.62]
14 131 ms 135 ms 142 ms 36.225.148.207.static.yourhostingaccount.com [20
7.148.225.36]
15 131 ms 131 ms 130 ms 65-254-250-113.yourhostingaccount.com [65.254.25
0.113]

Trace complete.

C:\>
----------------------------------------------------------
C:\>tracert www.powweb.com

Tracing route to www.powweb.com [96.6.3.185]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms #.#.#.1
2 34 ms 33 ms 33 ms tukw-dsl-gw08-200.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.200]

3 38 ms 34 ms 35 ms tukw-agw1.inet.qwest.net [71.217.184.57]
4 34 ms 35 ms 34 ms sea-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.26.142]
5 34 ms 34 ms 34 ms te8-3-10G.ar5.SEA1.gblx.net [64.208.110.141]
6 35 ms 35 ms 34 ms a96-6-3-185.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [96.6.
3.185]

Trace complete.

C:\>
----------------------------------------------------------

heh

2009-11-12T02:01:30Z