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30 Comments

  1. Regular
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 7:33 pm | Permalink

    First …ahhhh

  2. J R
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 7:37 pm | Permalink

    Yet ANOTHER drawback to this new thing. It’s Sunday morning on Friday night.

  3. mrbill
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 7:42 pm | Permalink

    Great story about a Wichita entrepreneur working on cutting edge biodiesel and hummers and gas turbines with ethanol and hydrogen.

    He is currently working on Arnolds car and has GM looking at his work. Quite an article.

    http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html

  4. Hank Price
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 8:13 pm | Permalink

    Hmmm, what to do, what to do!

    Do I post my Sunday morning highly qualified global warming skeptic tomorrow morning in this open thread or do I post the regularly scheduled Saturday morning highly qualified skeptic?

    What to do, what to do?

  5. No comment/new look
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

    Bring back some of the old features, please. Will add sugar on top if it helps.

    RSS Feeds, if you subscribe to the comments one, it gives you the ability to jump to the comment when you click on it.

  6. mrbill
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 8:42 pm | Permalink

    Bring back the PREVIEW comments.

    Whats up with messing with the layout.

    Whats up with a generic email address…..to much interaction with the peasants with pitchforks…public…?

  7. Ksgrm
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 9:10 pm | Permalink

    AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 3 — The Kucinich for President campaign is filing a lawsuit against the Texas Democratic Party to stop the Party from excluding Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich from the Democratic primary election ballot. A co-plaintiff in the lawsuit is legendary entertainer, longtime Kucinich friend, and Texas voter, Willie Nelson.

    The state party notified the Kucinich campaign today that its application for a place on the Texas primary ballot was rejected because Kucinich refused to “swear an oath” to “fully support the Democratic nominee for President, whoever that shall be.”

    After all of the talk about the Kansas republicans wanting candidates to sign a letter stating they would support the republican nominee before receiving funding from the GOP pot – alas this must be a big disappointment for those high principled democrats.

  8. Political_mama
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 9:53 pm | Permalink

    Wahooo! Is this going to work with no registration?

  9. Political_mama
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 9:59 pm | Permalink

    Can we please not complain, we’ve asked for a new format forever. We get it, now lets let them play with it for awhile and see how it goes.

    Ksgrm, I’d be mad too if the Dem party asked Kuc. to sign that oath. “Ms. Moon said the oath for Democratic candidates in Texas dates to the 1950s, when “people used to cross-file and file in both parties.” “

  10. J R
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 10:15 pm | Permalink

    I didn’t ask for any new format.

    At least they list the threads now.

    But a recent comments is still needed.

  11. Steven Davis
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 10:16 pm | Permalink

    ksgram,
    Oh, come on…

  12. Max
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 10:38 pm | Permalink

    Posting this 26 hours in the future.

    Wanted to get a head start.

    Hillary sucks!

  13. No comment/new look
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 10:46 pm | Permalink

    I didnt ask for the new format. A better format would not be complained about much. The goal of a new format ought to focus on improving functionality first and prettiness second. The big positive differences are the alternating colors for responses and the RSS feeds. Search feature when fully in place, at least I beg for it to be a work in progress, ought to be a good addition. Maybe a few of the new changes are the WE subtle way to discourage trolls by making some things more difficult!

  14. JWink
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 11:01 pm | Permalink

    The new format looks good to me. I appreciate having our names at the beginning of our remarks rather than at the end. I kept getting blamed for comments entered by others. “Did you say that?” Also the alternating colors look good.

  15. Kansas (old Pat)
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 11:57 pm | Permalink

    Good grief man! Did I miss Sunday morning mass?
    It’s been a few days. I can be Kansas now.

  16. Kansas
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 11:58 pm | Permalink

    I can’t get my magnifying glass to focus on this font.

    How the hell am I gonna know Capn UnAmerican from JR
    with this tiny crap?

  17. Regular
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 12:01 am | Permalink

    Kansas,

    If you have a PC, hold the control key down and then scroll your mouse wheel. The font will then become bigger or smaller as you wish.

  18. Kansas (old Pat)
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 12:24 am | Permalink

    Thanks for trying Regular but that didn’t work for me. I am squinting to read this.

    Us old farts may be in trouble. You directions were probably clear as can be, but I held down the the control key, and started scrolling down with my mouse, but it just highlighted the text.

    My gawd almighty! JR will insult me and I won’t be able to read it.

    Edwards sucks. Hillary it looking good, but then my eyesight is going. After a few beers, hell she might not scare a freight train into leaving the tracks!

  19. J R
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 12:41 am | Permalink

    Good.

  20. Regular
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 12:57 am | Permalink

    Kansas,

    Try this:

    Hold down Ctrl key and press “++” on the number pad.

    To reduce the size, hold down the Ctrl key and press “–” on the number pad.

  21. Rage
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 3:21 am | Permalink

    Damn, Russert looked silly on “Meet the Press”! Hardly worth getting up at 8 on a Sunday!

  22. Rage
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 3:22 am | Permalink

    Hmmm.. . no preview function. Hell, I never used it anyway!

  23. Rage
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 3:23 am | Permalink

    Old pat?

    Should I even ask? Never mind.

  24. Kansas
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 8:38 am | Permalink

    Waa-laa! That’s it. Thanks regular.

  25. Get real
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 11:12 pm | Permalink

    Not bad for now.

  26. J R
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 11:15 pm | Permalink

    At 7:37 PM tomorrow, I am gonna make instant coffee in the microwave an post and see if I destroy the space time continumn

  27. Get real
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

    Why at 737 PM? Whats special about the date or time? If you destroy the time continuum, what do you think will happen? :) ;)

  28. Get real
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 11:18 pm | Permalink

    Wonder how many smileys work. :P :o

  29. cosmos
    Posted January 6, 2008 at 1:54 am | Permalink

    Posted by Hank Price, January 4, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    “Hmmm, what to do, what to do!

    Do I post my Sunday morning highly qualified global warming skeptic tomorrow morning in this open thread or do I post the regularly scheduled Saturday morning highly qualified skeptic?

    What to do, what to do?”

    Dear Hank Price,

    It’s very simple, Hank. You should hugely impress everyone who reads the WE BLog!

    Just copy/paste your “highly qualified global warming skeptic”(sic), Alan Titchmarsh, from Sen. Inhohe’s (R Exxon), “400″(sic) “prominent”(sic) “scientists”(sic) list.

    Alan Titchmarch: “I’m SURE we are contributing to global warming,…”

    And then, Hank Price can again call me a “nitwit”, like he has done many times before.

  30. HillaryHahahahahaha
    Posted January 6, 2008 at 5:42 pm | Permalink

    I wished Hillary on the news today accusing Senator Obama of changing his voting on Iraq. She has changed her vote on it enough it is hypocritical of her. Good for Obama and Edwards for tagteaming her in the debate. How many times has she changed positions? Fitting Bill keeps contradicting her stated positions and her staff have to find ways to keep his mouth closed. Mitt is going after McCain now. The Repub debates were as fun with the comments about attack ads. Clinton and Romney win the nomination and Clinton winning the election. Her supporters get their water dreams fulfilled and she becomes a bigger dictator than Bush. Romney won Wyoming and noone noticed.