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

the orks in the white house

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:16:16 GMT

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 If I recall, Glass- Steagall was repealed -- that bill was signed by Bill Clinton...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

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:57:58 GMT

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

halloween

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:29:39 GMT

algore, the idiot

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:48:53 GMT

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

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:01:41 GMT

"Terrorists ‘Saved or Created’"

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:47:36 GMT

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:10:01 GMT

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

lost friends

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:25:54 GMT

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

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:39:53 GMT

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

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:01:30 GMT

obama, the idiot economist

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:33:55 GMT

Unemployment is now higher in the U.S. than in Europe, reports the Washington Post. “The official U.S. unemployment rate, reported last Friday, now stands at 10.2 percent,” compared to “9.7 percent” in Europe. This is the highest rate in more than 26 years, and marks a huge change from the recent past, in which unemployment was double the American rate in much of Europe.- *

quote of the day

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:54:17 GMT

“Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down and with it communist rule in Central Europe. Within little more than two years, the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the transition from communist dictatorship to free market democracy began in much of the former socialist commonwealth. . . . In spite of its monumental failure to bring social peace and material abundance, socialism is enjoying something of a renaissance. From Venezuela to Bolivia to South Africa, government ministers espouse the supposed virtues of socialism. Even in the West, some policies are taking government intervention in the economy to levels unseen in decades. Given the renewed interest in alternatives to capitalism, it is perhaps appropriate to recall the last time that socialism was tried with real gusto.” - *

polyrealism on tv

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:31:29 GMT

Please join us watching the interview with Poul Costinsky on "A Girl on A Mission TV"! The full show airs on November 7, 2009 at 6:30pm on Comcast 77
and Broadstripe 23 cable TV, also streaming live at http://www.scantv.org.

Direct link: mms://www.SCANStream.net/scanlive
Poul's art web site: http://polyrealism.com
"A Girl on A Mission TV" blog: http://www.agirlonamissiontvblog.com/

See preview of the interview on YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iy2N5r55mU

Thank you,
Poul.

intervista

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:38:34 GMT

Watch the interview with Poul Costinsky on "A Girl on A Mission TV"! The full show airs on November 7, 2009 at 6:30pm on Comcast 77 and Broadstripe 23 cable TV, also streaming live at http://www.scantv.org.

Direct link: mms://www.SCANStream.net/scanlive
Poul's art web site: http://polyrealism.com
"A Girl on A Mission TV" blog: http://www.agirlonamissiontvblog.com/

See preview of the interview on YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iy2N5r55mU

obama, the idiot

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:20:30 GMT

this one is the worst yet coming from the orks in the white house:

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says... That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability.

This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel. - *

note this is boing-boing, not some righty rag. how is this not fascim again?

quote of the day

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:06:34 GMT

Obama's Big Win of the Night: Voters Repeal Maine's Gay-Marriage Law. "Obama is against Same-Sex Marriage, so he might get a win in Maine!" -- justkarl, on Twitter</font>

'V' vs 'O'

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:19:59 GMT

Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy."

So, does that sound like anyone you know? Oh, wait -- did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who's come here to eat us? - *

a little nisse in the birch grove

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:27:33 GMT

hehe

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:08:21 GMT

Funny Father & Baby - Watch the best video clips here

well, torture their ass then, would ya already?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:42:15 GMT

As President Barack Obama's deadline to close Guantánamo looms, some occupants of the notorious detention centre would rather prolong their stay than be sent to maximum security prisons on the US mainland, according to camp officials.- *

finally, a lens that photographs the way i paint

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:40:50 GMT

lensbaby 2.0

quote of the day

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:40:20 GMT

[Washington State politicians] are always surprised. They pile on taxes and regulations, and then — who’d'athunkit — businesses go somewhere else. This is known as “bad luck.”

quote of the day

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:51:53 GMT

"some believe that Obama was born in a third world country and before his term is up, it will be true" - anonymous

obama lies, dog bites man

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:07:15 GMT

The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far.
...

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs downplayed errors in job counts identified by the AP's review, telling reporters, "We're talking about 4,000, or a 5,000 error."

The AP reviewed a sample of federal contracts, not all 9,000 reported to date, and discovered errors in one in six jobs credited to the $787 billion stimulus program — or nearly 5,000 of the 30,000 jobs claimed so far.

Even in its limited review, the AP found job counts that were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of paid positions; jobs credited to the stimulus program that were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs that were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced. - AP.

John Kerry, the idiot

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:58:42 GMT

remember this presidential candidate who lost to the most unpopular american president on memory? he hashn't changed:

A month ago, the Law Library of Congress reviewed the removal of Manuel Zelaya from his post as President of Honduras, an act that the Obama administration called a ‘coup’ and demanded reversed for its illegality. To the embarrassment of the White House and State Department, the Congressional body determined that Honduras acted lawfully in removing Zelaya for his crimes against their constitution, although they determined that his exile broke Honduran law. Now John Kerry wants the Law Library to retract its findings, apparently trying to rewrite history to hide the facts of the case. - * via *.