Unfortunately, something happened last night during the migration and everything got trashed. I’m busy rebuilding this damn thing. I am pissed.
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by savage ( 42 Comments › )Filed under Blogmocracy, Open thread at December 21st, 2008 - 11:15 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Man, that sucks! I hope you get everything taken care of with minimal problems.
I am alive and well. We may be the only survivors!
http://www.futurosistemas.net/Imagens/backup.jpg
so far so good.
Fuck, this is a nightmare!
Man, Charles has gone insane. Look the way he ends the post about Rick Warren:
Yes, and they both wear shoes. So? lol
Charles is really reaching.
This is the first time the site worked for me. I have been having some problems. Well have fun with the designing.
I started a LGF2 at wordpress http://lgf2.wordpress.com/ . I hope things are up and running soon here.
Here’s the deal. Something is screwy with this new version of WordPress. I have everything backed up but it only imports something that is 2 MB or less in size and the XML backup file is almost 10 MB. I have to chop it up into 5 pieces in Word and import them one at a time.
Everything is in there though.
Speaking of reaching, here’s some more of it:
184 Charles12/20/2008 10:16:33 am PST 6
re: #132 Racer X
AGW?
The jury is still out.
More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Before putting too much credibility on that report, please note that it’s from the website of Senator James Inhofe, a fundamentalist and young earth creationist connected to the Pat Robertson branch of the far right.
He is not the best source for honest criticism of climate change.
209 Charles12/20/2008 10:22:54 am PST 3
re: #204 doriangrey
Here are 31,000 scientist that disagree with global warming, they are not connected with ID or religious fundamentalism in any way shape or form.
Right at the bottom of that page: a link to the Discovery Institute. Uh oh.
Posted in: Obama’s Science Leaders
230 Charles12/20/2008 10:28:17 am PST 3
re: #217 Quilly Mammoth
But the people who are quoted _aren’t_ young earthers and are quite credible.
Not all of them:
[Link: scienceblogs.com...]
And there are people on that list who have asked to be taken off, but weren’t.
[Link: gristmill.grist.org...]
284 Charles12/20/2008 10:43:15 am PST 12
I think we should be skeptical of the climate change wisdom handed down by people like Al Gore. But we also need to watch out for people like Inhofe. And yes, call me names if you like, but any connection with creationism immediately closes the credibility door for me.
Zombie trys to talk some sense into Queeg but he will have none of that!
363 zombie12/20/2008 11:06:48 am PST 10
re: #284 Charles
I think we should be skeptical of the climate change wisdom handed down by people like Al Gore. But we also need to watch out for people like Inhofe. And yes, call me names if you like, but any connection with creationism immediately closes the credibility door for me.
re: #285 Quilly Mammoth
Part of the problem with global warming is that it is too politicized. For every scientist that can be discredited who opposes global warming there is at least two on the other side. Many of the scientists who have signed petitions supporting Anthropological Global Warming aren’t even in fields that remotely correlate to atmospheric studies.
Interesting that these two comments were right on top of each other.
Charles, one shouldn’t rely on the “appeal to authority” argument when assessing the reality of anthropogenic global warming. Ignore the political beliefs of people professing either side of the debate — which should be irrelevant.
Instead, look at the actual data oneself.
That’s what i did, even though I was no expert. In fact, I even looked at a lot of data put out by anthropogenic global warming advocates. And what it told me was that they were full of shit: they were deriving ludicrous projections of distant future possibilities and acting as if were inescapable and immediate.
It’s pretty astounding how you can see the distortions and lies, right in front of your eyes, if you actually sit down and peer at the data.
I cam to the self-evident conclusion that:
The current trend of global warming was very minor and progressing very slowly;
and the mankind’s contribution to it was a very marginal factor, at most;
and to the extent that mankind was contributing, 95% of the problem was NOT coming from the U.S., but instead from China, India, Brazil and Indonesia.
We could all sit around here in the United States riding bicycles instead of cars, and wearing sweaters instead of turning on the heat, and closing down our factories so as to lower our “carbon footprint” — and it wouldn’t affect the climate in the slightest one way or the other.
518 Charles12/20/2008 11:54:26 am PST 4
re: #363 zombie
Interesting that these two comments were right on top of each other.
Charles, one shouldn’t rely on the “appeal to authority” argument when assessing the reality of anthropogenic global warming. Ignore the political beliefs of people professing either side of the debate — which should be irrelevant.
Instead, look at the actual data oneself.
“In an ideal case, you could indeed ignore the political beliefs of the people involved. However, in this case, I think there’s good reason to be suspicious of the credibility of anyone involved with the Discovery Institute, or other creation-espousing organizations, for two reasons: first, it absolutely does call their ability to render a scientific judgment into question, and second, creationists (DI and others) have shown a willingness to distort and twist science and scientific data, sometimes in a very dishonest way.
Note that I’m not saying both sides haven’t been guilty to some degree. I’m saying the Inhofe crowd is not reliable.”
By “ideal case” Chucky means someone who ain’t a Christian. So Queeg says Christians have zero credibility in everything because they are Christians and therefor what they say about AGW is to be ignored. He doesn’t respond to the information and data, however, as Zombie suggests. That would be much harder than simply taking pot shots at Christians and proclaiming they have no credibility…in anything.
Watch out Zombie! You better walk softly when you challenge Queeg’s nonsense.
You know, it’s kinda funny how Chucky contorts himself so much when trying to make these ridiculous connections and looney assertions about Christians and ID’ers. Chuckie ain’t content to disagree with them about evolution, so he must demonize them and anything they say, even if it is the truth and is easily proven.
This is a twofer for Queeg. Continue to attempt ruining the credibility of Christians/ID’ers, and cast doubt on AGW “deniers”. Remember, the debate is over and there’s a consensus. And yet Queeg never addresses any of the facts that prove AGW is BS! He’s definitely moving in the direction of the Algorimaniacs, although moderately so. At any rate he’s still drinkin’ the koolaid.
BTW, I know Sura will be here screamin’ his talking points again and moving the goal posts, and that’s fine, but I find it’s useless to argue with some folks like Sura when they never acknowledge any truth in what their opponents say. I also find Sura disengenuous because he takes words out of context, is obtuse, and avoids honest debate like the plague. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good practice to try and set Sura straight. I’m just sayin’ for me, it’s a waste of time I’d rather use for drinking beer or somethin’.
Dude!
Did you not like the old format, or what?
chen, the other site design looked like shit to me and I was limited to a lot of stuff I can do with this new template.
Well, good luck, and don’t forget about the gravatars. I feel a little naked without my purple star. LOL
I’m here. It hurt a little when the ceiling fell on me but, I’m ok.
I’ll get em in there. I like shurkins, btw
I was afraid everyone vanished! I’m glad you’re back on track.
Savage what happened to the old posts and comments? am going to post them on LGF2 for now.
Avid, I have to chop the XML file apart cause the thing is 10MB and wordpress wont import anything larger than 2MB.
It’s all in there though
Savage I do not see them I copied and pasted the most recent comments here:http://lgf2.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/old-comments-from-lgf2/
and the most recent posts here http://lgf2.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/old-post-at-lgf2/
I can get more and I can delete anything anyone wants.
avid,
Good job. Listen, can you export them to an XML format and email them to me? Damn new wordpress wont let you import anything bigger than 2 mb and the entire blog is 10 mb.
It’s Christmas week. Lets just work on getting everything straight for the New Year.
Don’t worry about it, Savage. We can just start fresh. It isn’t the end of the world. As long as our regulars can find us, we’ll be up and running soon enough.
DJM…
I have the damn xml code with EVERYTHING in it! If this new wordpress version let me import the thing, it would be perfect.
I’m here, trying to figure out what my spouse wants for Christmas. I think a vacuum cleaner would be most welcome. What do you all think?
Heh.
I’m off to work. I got to get away from this thing for a while or I’ll end up exploding.
I’ll see you all later.
#23 Passionate Conservative – Are you crazy??!
Watch this video and then decide if a vacuum is a good present:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twivg7GkYts
Savage, can you turn off moderation?
I just did
Thanks!
you bet
Fantastic theme.
I feel like I am in a desert island.
re: 23 you are joking right? DJM is right IMHO. You are better off with just a card IMHO.
Savage I just copied and pasted my RSS feeds from google reader. I am not sure how you can convert them into xml.
I still see a “Just another WordPress weblog”. I am just giving you a heads up.
Guys, I’m going to post at http://lgf2.wordpress.com for now. If you see any LGF2 regulars, please direct them there until everything is fixed here.
http://lgf2.wordpress.com
http://lgf2.wordpress.com
http://lgf2.wordpress.com
http://lgf2.wordpress.com
Is there anyway to set this up so that if you click on a link it opens in a new tab or window rather than navigating away from here to the new page?
What does “Your comment is awaiting moderation” mean? That comments have to be approved before they are posted?
I see we must go elsewhere until savage unscrews the pooch.
Hey, Savage…boogah-boogah!
And word press says “code is poetry.”
That’s like saying Elizabeth Alexander is a poet.
It’s me, rainydayweather (aka RainyDay). I don’t see a way of signing up or registering for this new blog. Where do we do that?
This new site doesn’t seem to allow us to carry over our old i.d.s from the old blog. I’m confused.
DJM and Avid Editor…I am joking, and I saw the video a long time ago…
I’m back. Time to split up the xml files and rebuild them on the server
well, I’m putting out new themes until I debug that last one.
well from what i can see at this time, its looking really great.
i love it, really.