Welcome Back to Emptywheel!
You’ve found our new digs!
Thanks to Chris, Dan, Rayne, Brian, and Jason for helping with this transition–particularly Chris and Dan who helped with a lot of last minute surprises.
The site is not yet fully functional–most notably, we’re working on comments. Right now, we don’t have a registration system like we did at FDL: you need to enter your username and email address and it will need approved. Also, comments from yesterday afternoon and today at the FDL site are not yet in these posts.
Also, we don’t yet have the RSS feeds working. We have the RSS feed for the posts set up–working on comments.
We should be fully up and running early next week.
Hi Marcy!
This is a test of the posting system. If this had been an actual post, a parenthical would have been appended
Boxturtle
Aw, no parenthetical?
You’ll get a paraenthical when you post the nastygram on Brooks leaving News Corp that I know you must be writing. :-)
Boxturtle (This one is for me, I ALWAYS must have the last word)
Hey, nice digs you have here.
Glad I found you. Will bookmark this page!
Intruder alert! :)
*lurks under the couch*
Wow, they sure cleaned you off the front page quickly back at FDL. Wonder if posts mentioning you will get moderated. :-)
Boxturtle (In the old days, you’d get a gold watch with the boot out the door)
Just claiming my name…
I look forward to continuing to read and support your
incitefulinsightful and important work.Box Turtle
They’re trying to get the Dissenter up at the same time. So that’s understandable.
Hmm. Still playing with the way comments appear. But you’ll be happy to know I got rid of avatars and nested comments.
More importantly, I allowed R-rated comments. So maybe bmaz will be able to comment after all.
blowjob.
Happy Housewarming!
Good Luck with the new site, I’ll bookmark it.
Get those goddamned smiley faces off this blog!!!
Wahoo! No nested comments! It took you all of minutes to do that ans they STILL haven’t done it over at FDL.
Boxturtle (Blowjob. Bastard. Bitch. MoFo. Ah, freedom!)
Yeah, those nested comments were a scary way to start the morning.
More coffee.
Hey welcome to your new digs. while you are figuring things out I would like to pose a question to you and your very smart readers. Last night I finished Glenn Carle’s book…seemed a good book to read on my way home from Gitmo. I am curious as to who people think the “retarded” HTV detainee is or if there is any indication out there as to who he might be. Although the description of “retarded” is kind of weird I am wondering if this might be referring to Abu Z? The timing seems right. Any thoughts?
Hello.
Hawaii?
I dunno, Alaska?
LOL…… Nice Marcy. I’ll be reading and will change the new site to my home page so you are ALWAYS the first thing I see when I pull up Safari.
I know you don’t need luck, but I’m sending you some good luck and best wishes for this new gig!
Hey, new screen name for an old friend!
Is there an RSS feed?
Do you want bug reports (i.e. links in top nav bar not working) or should we wait a bit?
To hcgorman:
My first thought was also Abu Zubaydah, and he was definitely in custody by then and had already been subject to nastiness, but maybe someone else can give us more info.
WO
Should be up momentarily.
hcgorman
It’s not Zubaydah.
It’s someone tied up w/Wazir’s hawala.
They did pick up his brother from Germany–not sure if that’s who it’s supposed to be. But they also picked up a couple of other people tied into his hawala.
Are you taking requests?
If so, how about a “Preview” button for comments?
WO: Thank–that’s a known one. But please do let us know what’s going on. We’re going to be tweaking some stuff today, then going back in and doing work on the template on Monday.
harpie
Hopefully at that time–if not before–we can fix the comment appearance.
I have been trying to track down whether the Durham who blew the Clemens case is related to the Durham who did the torture investigation. Not sure yet. I know the torture Durham had a son who was a prosecutor.
Time – Pink Floyd
http://youtu.be/MUt7qmSvxLI
Well, in relation to the expert disclosure issue, this is just mendacity by the govt. because no less than Nino Scalia has insured in Melendez-Diaz in 2009 and then, just a couple of weeks ago, confirming and strengthening further by joining Ginsburg in Bullcoming, that there is an absolute right to confront experts.
Uh, I didn’t mean for that to post here….not sure what happened.
Knock, knock. H-u-l-l-o?
Somebody said we could get free beer here. I brought my own mug just in case.
Ignore the mustache. It’s just for keeping the foam out of my nose.
Beer???
We’re serving only mimosas until 1.
Beer thirty is scheduled for 1:30 today.
Hi Marcy and Bmaz! As is customary for a Peasant, I’d like to annoint your new place with an evergreen branch.
May you grow, be properous, happy and healthy at your new home!
Great to see this; good luck Marcy and Bmaz at ur new digs
Nice place ya’ got here. When’s the furniture going to be delivered?…gonna have to get that new 70″ flat screen for bmaz though,, especially if the strike settlement is true…
Hey, nice. Looking forward to the “less manic” emptywheel.
Best to Marcy and bmaz at your new home.
Marcy;
Any best practices you can offer for finding a nugget in the National Archives Haystack would be appreciated.
Doing some research on the citizenship of Rupert Murdoch, reportedly granted by Reagan in September 1985 so he could buy MetroMedia. Keyword searches left me frustrated. I suspect it is buried in daily housekeeping legislation or pronouncments. But it is truly mindboggling data dump.
Ideas from any would be appreciated.
SaltinWound,
Apparently there is no relation. John Durham, the prosecutor in the torture investigation, does have a son who is an AUSA, but he is John J. Durham in the EDNY (Brooklyn) office.
BlowJob : )
Whee! Naughty language for EW and a smiley for bmaz. Nice place you got here… Can we start beer-thirty in Eastern Time? It’s Friday, we can start early…
Free beer? I was told there’d be single malt scotch. I expect single malt scotch!
Hmmm…nice place you got here. Be a shame if something happened to it.
Boxturtle (testing out the moderation for sarcastic suggestions of violence)
Oh, and I forgot to mention… THANK GOD for NO NESTED COMMENTS! Man, I hate those.
Out here on the Left Coast we might be partaking of something more, um, green this afternoon. Happy Hour, indeed.
Heard there was a party here….
Glad to see you back. It would be nice if this site looked a little bit different than FDL.
Wow… and, here you are! Now anchored in my bookmarks. Hang in through the bugs and the growing pains. May the technology adventure be a tame one.
Putting text with hyperlinks in our comments is working, but in a comment I made over at the Stirling post, blockquoting isn’t working yet. I suspect ya’ll already know that one.
Please, everybody hide your “g”s!
I love that the new site looks just like the old one and the continuity maintained. Keep up the good work.
The main feed and the Feedburner feed are up and running – cute favicon included. Just the comments feed still to go.
It took me a while to find you; good work on getting up and running.
Hey, I made it!!!
Last time MD helped me for a week until I made it to your new digs!
Yo yall… y’all… ya’ll :-)
OMG!!! an emoticon! NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo….
wait… does that mean we’ll be able to embed pix and vid here?
Congratulations on the move, Marcy. I hope you and bmaz will be very happy here!
OT: …well, i don’t really have an OT comment, but figure people wouldn’t recognize me without those two letters preceding any comment of mine.
congrats on the new digs (same as the old digs).
always & forever: team blowjob!
Nice to see the new digs!
Good luck to all, esp the server squirrels ;-)
I’m delighted to have found your new digs. I’ll visit daily, as I have for the past few years. Going all the way back to the Next Hurrah.
Thanks to both Marcy and Bmaz for the informed analysis and devotion to truth. Bon courage!
re phred and nested comments — why can’t they make it a choice of views? Go from nested to chronological/numbered, the way you can go from collapsed to expanded in some places, or list to thumbnail, that kind of thing? when I used to print out posts with 20 pages of comments, I’d practically diagram things out to follow a thread — like, 68 replying to a 24 doesn’t go back and put a 24 to 68 forward link in, or the nests beyond. (That’s also why I usually quote when I link, because links in a printout are useless and also links go dead.) In short, aren’t ponies pretty?
Just left this comment at your FDL page:
Just to let you know, I bookmarked your page at FDL and that is how I entered FDL daily, through your blog.
Glad I bookmarked you. With your header gone on the FDL front page, no one can find you. There is no link on FDL’s front page as of now. So, I am not sure how anyone will find the links you posted to your new digs.
Anyone on vacation will not find you or your good-bye posts. Hope Jane can post a link button.
Glad you’re up. Put me down for $20/month.
JC, long time no see!! Welcome home!
Now there is a link to you in archives on FDL’s front page.
Glad I found you – now have to find you again on my home computer.
marksb, someone invented algae-based beer???
Welcome to the new digs, Marcy. Housewarming present en route.
Oh boy, I can welcome you without creating an account. Congrats and keep up the good work! (From an ew fund contributor).
Got here just in time for the beer. Love what you’ve done with the place.
D’ya think we could get some dividing lines or something between the comments, and maybe some numbers like at the old place, so it’s easier to follow the flow? But other than that, love the crown mouldings and the paint and all.
Now. Where’s the beer?
I’m going back to my original bg, glad to see you here, Marcy and bmaz. Will bookmark and look for beer later.
The problem with nested comments is that replies can be and are lost in the nesting… they go unnoticed as the reader tries to play catchup all up and down the commentary.
The overall solution would be a design that enables a browser to go to the first unread post in each thread… and when done with that thread on to the first unread post in the next thread.
All problems solved… theoretically.
But implementing such solutions involves advanced scripting that always breaks from browser version to browser version… much less from browser to browser and OS to OS.
… and an additional problem is that someone on the dev team always wants to push a flash solution that locks the entire site into predetermined formatting that’s usually hell on the visually disabled….
What? Me, bitter? Nah…
Did someone mention Margaritas?
Congrats on the new digs. Got the rss feed going and will be looking forward to the continuation of the great content you two have always provided.
Okay, with all this beer around, did anyone remember to pack the McCain party hat?
I had some pineapple this morning….
OT: (for real this time) – things heating up for John Rizzo:
“Campaigners against US drone strikes in Pakistan are calling for the CIA’s former legal chief to be arrested and charged with murder for approving attacks that killed hundreds of people.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/15/cia-usa
Following the light….
(((((bmaz)))))
Can’t shake me.
Re: Rizzo.
Excellent. I know that ObamaLLP will not even dignify a warrent with a public response, never mind actually following our treaty obligations and extraditing him.
But they should remember that whatever is good for Assuage is also good for Rizzo.
Boxturtle (I doubt Rizzo travels much. This should reduce travel time to zero)
Congratulations, Marcy and bmaz.
ros, you may be prone to OT comments, but that is why we love you : ) More power to Stafford Smith, he’s gonna need it…
There you are! Congratulations on the new site.
Note to EW.net webmaster: The “Donate” button leads to a dead end.
Bookmarked!
This reminds me of;
When I was a kids my parents moved….but I found them again;-)
Congrats! This is still the first site I open when I get to the ‘net.
oh good!
it sounds like i can cuss a blue streak here – darn, dagnabit, doggies, son-of-a-gun, by jingo….
but can i comment w/out disclosing my criminal record?
while you’re in max overload on the tech details,
i suggest
– dog pictures on friday,
– cat pictures on monday,
and
– ugliest republican of the week pictures (with a quote) on saturday evening.
might be good fun raising!
Both very much dog people; we don’t do cats!!
You can’t shake me off that easy…!! J/K…! I follow from the U.S., Afghanistan and many other countries where I happen to be traveling/working… Best of luck…! I’ve added your RSS feed…
… and we’re back
change of URL begets a change in handle. Same me since the days of hurrah. Still with you after all these years.
WOW, caught me by surprise. Best luck, you deserve it.
“Donate” isn’t working, get your priorities straight :>)))
One of the details we are still perfecting. We are less than 12 hours in to this enterprise so far, we’ll get it right!
best wishes for many more years of extraordinary work.
Congrats on the new digs. I hope the rollout goes smoothly.
Uh, hi. Nice new place you got here.
Actually, it looks a lot like th old place, must be the the furniture.
Where are the margaritas? BMAZ said there would be margaritas.
(looking about expectantly)
Watertiger has been pilfering my tequila again. Please stand by…….
I hid the Patron and the Tres Generaciones, bmaz, going to have to use whatever remains of the Cuervo and Los Hornitos for the margaritas and body shots.
Um. on second thought, just shots, no body shots.
Re: bailey on July 15, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I just added a temporary Donation page, complete with operational link to the emptywheel PayPal account.
Priorities straight, just all of them important at the same time. ;-)
Sorry, I’ll have to wait for an alternative, I cancelled ppal over wikileaks. Rest assured, if ew is here, I’ll be following! Best luck.
Erin go bragh.
Apart from your reportage, a key aspect of this site is the utility of its comments section. The s/w used for MyFDL is atrocious, a false economy. That said, looking forward to kicking the tires on your new ride.
Welcome Earl!
RE: bailey on July 15, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Once we get the comments and page formatting tweaked, I’ll work on an alternative, although it may be simply sending a check by snail mail.
Check again later this next Monday, okay? thanks!
Glad I found you guys.
Did someone mention beer?
You are now my home page.
Claus!!
Welcome back to the airwaves.
It’s after 1:30 pm PDT so it’s Beer-thirty across the continental U.S.
Beer, single malt whiskeys and anejo tequila for everyone!
We’ve bloody well earned it this week, bring it on. I owe a long-overdue toast to a hardcore activist friend who passed away this past weekend, too. Tip one for emptywheel’s new digs, and another one for Jerry when you tip a beverage, please; Jerry was one helluva parliamentarian and helped get our local activist group on its feet.
Wow, look at all this space! Bet you it fills up in no time.
Bmaz old buddy,
It’s been a great journey from Next Hurrah to today.
As for me I am in for the long haul.
Will do, Rayne. By the way, nice to see you again : )
Rayne
Is Jerry one of those two jolly guys who I met at an event in Lansing that raved about some woman with a name very similar to yours?
woohoo — i found ya!!!
Thanks for the link,bmaz.
Rayne, I have been wondering whatever happened to you.
BTW,folks,whazzup with EOH?I haven’t seen any comments from his earlship of late?
He was just here – now as EoH – a few minutes ago.
RE: emptywheel on July 15, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Oh, I’m not certain about that; John is still with us, but he’s had two cardiac events since you saw him. The identity of other chap you met I don’t recall so I can’t rule him out. All I know is that every young insurgent organization that wants to take on the deeply embedded old school machine really needs a friendly parliamentarian as a mentor — and Jerry was one of the best we could have asked for. He leaves a hole in our team which can’t be filled.
RE: Gitcheegumee on July 15, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Let’s just say I’ve been very busy for the last 10 or so months, and now I’ve got time to be here at EW once again. Nice to see you here in the new ‘hood along with so many of the regulars.
And phred, nice to see you too!
Hey, I’m getting an e-mail from Colbert SuperPAC — Stephen wants green that’s worth money — know what he’s talking about? “It is money, or an emerald. Both are acceptable.”
(Beer?)
I’m gonna follow you…(that sounds creepy), but a day without EW is like a day without sunshine. (ugh that’s creepy too). Just let me in…please?
It’s great to see everyone. Can’t wait for the first weedy diary. Rayne!! Good to see you. So many folks I have grown to love! EW..hope this move brings everything you hoped for!
Another old name resurrected! Yea! Feeling like TNH around here….
Pretty neat.
One migration topic that occurred to me was the portable document format files archive aggregated at the former site.
I am happy with the software platform, though internet blogs mostly are cumbersome.
I mostly wanted to click in so the new site has my Hello World.
I even will leave a Latinate malappropism I included in haste at the former site as-was.
The stock photo of ksM looked like a torcha image. The American way, I guess, to show an unprocessed picture. I forget the emptywheel post about a demented detainee, but there were several discussed; I want to say Qahtani status after serial tortures. There are other topics on my mind, and the old computers erased most of the ancient files I had shelved.
re: something else I forgot. I had a government class session taught by a slick law dean whose memory received an elegy by a now-familiar conservative figure in the legal ethics community, Ronald Rotunda; the obituary is unusual in that it is seven pages in length, and footnoted academic style. It contains some otherwise interesting collateral information, though in an adversarial sense something about Drinan was noteworthy. It is wierd, subjectively, looking at Drinan, the concept of ethics actually was a foremost, questionable, impression; one I was apt to challenge. So, there is the Chapman College prof’s faretheewell concerning that congressperson. The prof also is serving on a prominent election watchdog agency in CA, having received a Democratic party statewide elected official’s appointment to that post; the minimal biographical paragraph there includes a stock image of the prof.
Congrats on the move, you were the best of The Lake and you need to become a contributor to Countdown next. Lip Stick and all.
Found you! (Glad you are on twitter)
Burnt and I have been experimenting with cocktails, so in honor of your new digs, here you go!
Ginger Sidesaddle
2.5 shots tequila (100% Agave)
1 shot Cointreau or Gran Marnier
juice of 2 lemons and 1 mandarin orange or grapefruit (= 2 ¼ shots juice)
2 Tbls spoon grated ginger
muddled mint or tarragon, or rosemary.
Optional: handful of fresh berries
Throw it in a blender a couple of seconds, and pour it out through a colander to remove the big stuff, but not all of the yummy pulp.
Serve in Martini glasses so that we can cut you off when you spill.
Awesome!
RE: bittersweet on July 15, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Holy mother of pearl, bittersweet, that’s an awesome beverage recipe — and I just happen to have everything but one of those herbs listed. I’ll add a handful of strawberries and maybe a sprig of lavender instead.
Martini glass my ass, I’m drinking it with a straw straight from the blender. Salut!
Yeah, that sounds like a lovely contraption there, bittersweet!
Today of all days, ALL the servers at work crashed. Oh my.
Just when I was chafing at the bit to get to work on time to check on emptywheel (been waiting and waiting). So more waiting till I get home with evening, and the party is in full swing! Congratulations you two. Looking forward to great things and high thinking.
Better give burnt the credit. He mostly concocts, I mostly imbibe and critique!
Rayne, let us know how the lavender goes with the strawberries..sounds heavenly! Cheers!
Hello, again, everyone.
Nice place. What time zone are we in?
Oh, I guess EDT.
Hey, you’re here! Welcome to where you are. I look forward to continuing to read you here and comment when I think I have something to add.
Best of luck in your new place. And hi! bmaz.
Regular lurker just jumping in to say “bon scribbage”, or something like that.
RE: bittersweet on July 15, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Strawberries + lavender = TASTY!!
But I knew that already, having made strawberry-lavender jam in years past. A little goes a long ways, just use the blossoms and macerate with the berries. In this case, mix a little of the lemon juice with crushed berries and a sprinkle of fresh lavender blooms and let sit to ripen a bit before mixing with the rest of the ingredients.
Also need to use a little less ginger and add more to taste; the ginger can be pretty strong if the root is not real fresh. Yum!! * Hiccup!! *
woo hoo! looks like a party!
rayne @9:41
thanks for the idea, rayne
strawberry-lavender jam sounds delicious.
lavender is at hand and strawberries are still available (bought some for my wife on wed at $2/lb).
it’s getting to be canning/ freezin’ season, folks –
catch it.
Making sure you have a cat picture anyway.
Nice looking place you got here. Good luck.
Well clearly, this is a Marcy transition because there are SO many things going on that her your touch. Near drooling by the time I got here today…And some predictions validated with the latest on Elizabeth Warren. I guess we knew it. But every time it happens it feels like…”he hit me again”.Someday i might get the nerve to leave this country.
Obama never had any intention of formally appointing Warren. NEVER.
Hey Marcy, bmaz! Found you! Woo, what a party — You got Michiganders. I see. Rayne, radiofreewill. Brought a pack of Trois Pistoles for help with beer thirty — where’s the fridge?
Awesome; HotFlash brings the Pistoles!
Thank goodness for Google – I found you! I don’t want to miss out on anything.
I do have a lawyerly question that maybe you can answer in a post:
Why is it that Holder seems to be worse than Gonzalez. We’ve seen all kinds of cases just blow up in their faces. Some of it, I know, is due to the leftover Bush holdouts and lurkers, but I would have thought by now they would have been weeded out or isolated. I have seen, too, where the DoJ has just decided NOT to take on some of the Wall Street pillaging crowd. And that may be Obama’s thing.
But I would love to see a post on it anyway.
That is an easy answer; the policy the Obama inner circle wants implemented is, in fact, being implemented. And sometimes that just results in crappy lawyering and losses.
Yep, crappy prosecuting when the perp is among the elite is just what Mr. Obama’s patrons want. Since that includes all political perps, virtually all white collar criminals such as fraudsters and tax evaders, most organized crime bosses and banksters, it’s just fine if the DoJ recruits most of its newbies from Liberty U. It will still hire a few Yalies, since a few among the elite will have to know how to keep the wasp from growing a new sting.
EoH is easier to type than earlofhuntingdon. Besides, Sherwood is now a pine plantation, and the abbots and barons no longer travel the king’s highway. They are ensconced in flats overlooking the Thames or Regent’s Park and in gated country houses made of honeyed stone. Time to update.
So glad you’re here and looking forward to all the good stuff. Also delighted to see that Rayne is involved. Best wishes.
Welcome home Twain!
Twain! Nice to see you, too, along with Katie J., HotFlash and so many other familiar faces. Feels almost like a homecoming party, am looking forward to seeing the new EW digs bloom.
Hey, a place I can actually comment at. Good luck with your new blog Marcy and Bmaz.
Oh, and heya Rayne. Hope life is treating you well.
Thanks to Ian I found your new digs and duly got it bookmarked. Congrats on your new venture!
EPU’d again… * s i g h *
Congratulations, Marcy.
Sorry you turned down the TV show at Current.tv … But just happy to have you reporting. But I hear Al Gore is pissed.