1 She voted for Obama, why would Google pick on her?

2 A cesspool of [misogyny] and homophobia? How no one told me about this place?

3 I just Google Imaged "nutting", Ace, and I was disgusted. And Obama '12!!!

4 The communists totally believe in everyone else's rights, sure they do.

5 I'd say it's technical but all of the other Blogspot blogs I usually visit -- and some I don't -- are up and functioning now.

But who knows.

6 I read some of her back and forth with the google blog guy.  He was a dick.

7 Don't be evil! Muahahaha

8 I hate Google.Google is evil.

9 Cocksuckers!

10 Which is strange because I stop going to it because after a few weeks of refreshing it 10 times a day, it sure seemed like she was a closet Liberal. I have not been back since. Wont even try now.

11 Google's Blogspot was wonky all day.  Nothing to worry about.  Things will be back to normal soon.

12 Well, I am mad a facebook because they were paying people to bash google and I have been saying google sucks for free.

oh and google sucks.

13 That tech support asshole is why Hindus seem like a good idea...

14 It's a technical glitch. In fact, early this morning other blogs were warning that Blogger was in a major meltdown and to expect blogs to disappear.

15 Face Book sucks more.

16 I agree KOW. After hitting her site through fellow-academician Instapundit's site for the WI stuff and the odd other thing before the WI issues, she lost it in defending her Obama vote and something else similar that I can't recall now so it's no loss to me practically.

17 Wait...she's still trying to defend her Obama vote??????

18 16 All the "conservative" women who got wet panties over Obama are dead to me.

19 The racist asshole Geraldo Rivera is defending sedition and treason. Rendition him to Gitmo.

20 Google is Evil, pure Evil. Did I say Google was Evil?

21 Wait...she's still trying to defend her Obama vote??????

Posted by: Tough US Immigration Policies at May 13, 2011 08:14 PM (x/4B/)

She was preening the other day after Obama single-handedly strangled Osama with his bare hands.

22 B+ had that meeting last month (or the month before ?) with S. Jobs/M. Zuckerberg.

It will be very interesting to see what comes of facebook in the next year.

I think you can get the gist as to where we're headed.

Terms of Service apparently don't apply to libtard nutterbutters.

23 22 What are the odds she buys the Seal Team 6 Obama doll and uses it as a sex toy?

24 Beware Greeks bearing gifts. Nothing is free.

25 Her commenters are worth the read, though.

26 What are the odds she buys the Seal Team 6 Obama doll and uses it as a sex toy?

Those teeth are racist stereotyping.

27 Where is the e-mail exchange with Google located?

28 What are the odds she buys the Seal Team 6 Obama doll and uses it as a sex toy?

Oh so she's a lesbian?

_{(that comparison was effing hilarious btw)}

29 Funny how they go for an academic liberal to ban rather than some right wing crazy.

Heretics before Infidels, I guess.

30 Lubos Motl's blogspot was funky all day also, so I really do think that it's just a glitch - if they really were such left-wing Machiavellis they would have gotten rid of Motl a long time ago.

31 Her commenters are worth the read, though.

Second best on the web

32 My site was down for hours early today. All my posts from Thursday disappeared.

33 8 I hate Google.Google is evil.

Posted by: steevy at May 13, 2011 08:09 PM (MLyR6)

Google = EVIL²

34 FaceBook is public.

35 She is smart and interesting. The thing with her marrying the commenter is a good story. Ann also had really good photos and blog coverage of the teachers strike up in Madison. It is just a different slant on the news of the day.

36 My site was down for hours early today. All my posts from Thursday disappeared.

Posted by: JWF at May 13, 2011 08:22 PM (1l37M)

I noticed the Thursday glitch and the comment problems. This appears different.

37 I don't get all these kids with their Twittering and Facebooking and Googling,and Texting.Get off my lawn!!

38 so google finally nutted all over her blog

39 Face Book sucks more.

Wouldn't know, never been there.

40 It has begun.

41 Althouse is an un-person.

42 It has begun.

Posted by: Onlooker at May 13, 2011 08:24 PM (9f7qj)

So they are going in alphabetic order?

43 I don't know whether there was anything in particular going on with the Althouse blog, but all Blogger blogs were in read-only mode for about 24 hours, and there were a lot of glitches for 24 hours before that, because they completely blew an upgrade and had to roll it back. In the meantime, no one could post to his blog, and any entries posted after the update disappeared for a while.

It happened to my blog as well, and it isn't even political, unless you are anti-Victorian, or are extremely anti-VOCs.

44

But, you know what's a really good idea? Trusting Google with all your data in their cloud. yeah, definitely not the best timing for Google there now is it?

Bwahahahahahaha

45 My Disaster Recovery Plan?  Resume.

46 Letters of Note (a neat non-politcal blog) said on Twitter that Google deleted some of their posts or something.  Might be server fuck-ups combined with Google's notoriously un-human tech support.

47

It's a good think  the MUNU blog format is run by a commodore 64 in a storage locker in Brooklyn.

Those fuckers will never bring this site down.

48 First they came for the liberal bloggers.......

49

#45 Oldcat, Rofl.

50 I've been nuttin' on that paige like Wicket in Princess Kneesaa's unmentionables drawer on Valentine's day.

51

It's a good think  the MUNU blog format is run by a commodore 64 in a storage locker in Brooklyn.

Those fuckers will never bring this site down.

Posted by: Ben at May 13, 2011 08:27 PM (DKV43)

Ace has all the posts and comments on mud-brick tablets in cuneiform just in case we roll back 3500 years.

52

It's really right out of a dystopian novel. Must be freaking Althouse out when she thinks about it. Being deliberately targeted by a malevolent corporation on behalf of the man you just voted for? 

53 I refuse to actively use google, as far as I'm concerned they're a pile of voyeuristic criminals.

54 So they are going in alphabetic order?

Hope so.

55 20 The racist asshole Geraldo Rivera is defending sedition and treason. Rendition him to Gitmo.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at May 13, 2011 08:16 PM (qIHlG)

newsletter?

56 Did Ann Althouse get a notification that her blog had been banned? I can't find any reference to that on her blog.

57

Ace has all the posts and comments on mud-brick tablets in cuneiform just in case we roll back 3500 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 13, 2011 08:28 PM (z1N6a)

I hear it took forever to double post them all.

58
Obama supporting company deletes blog of Obama supporting commenter.

Yeah, we'll send flowers....

59 If we like your blog, you can keep your blog.

60

Actually I guess it's more on behalf of the system (WI public employees/Academia) that the Corporation is going after her.

Big Spy hand-in-hand with Big Labor. Nice system we've got shaping up here.

61 Who is Ann Althouse?

62 Posted by: progressoverpeace

Oh my. Welcome back!!
*wink wink*

63 Have you seen our new ad slogan for the new Chrome Laptop?

"Run By Different People Than Blogspot - Trust Us"

64 Speaking of Google, is there any truth to the rumor that draft-dodger Lawrence O'Donnell dodged the draft? 

65

Althouse was voted off of the cloud, obviously.

Hey you, get offa my cloud!

66 It is no technical glitch.

And there is a 'volunteer' who is manning Google's support forums, and he is some piece of work. You should check out the "Save Ann Althouse's Blog" page on Facebook to see examples, screen shots, etc.

67 He hey you you(and I mean you Ann) get off of my cloud.

68 19 16 All the "conservative" women who got wet panties over Obama are dead to me.

Posted by: steevy at May 13, 2011 08:15 PM (MLyR6)

She's a lawyer. Obama's one of the cabal. So's Medved.  I guess they think that their brethren must be propped up so that they can keep their phony-baloney jobs.

After all, if it were revealed that Mr. Harvard Law Review were a dithering imbecile who has no idea what the hell he's doing, people might realize that the rest of them aren't that smart either.

69

I had problems with my Blogger site today also. I couldn't log in and my post from yesterday disappeared, so I posted yesterday's post today when I usually do something different for Fridays.

All five of my readers were crushed.

Love that cloud. If you depend on it for anything, remember it can always be removed from you and it's never truly secure. The only way to do that that I'm aware of (after working on, but not completing a CompSci degree) is to have your backup on your own hard drive and to have as little info "out there" as possible. Only a computer that's physically disconnected from the grid is secure, and also impossible.

Granted, you trade some privacy for convenience, but my information is mine, since I'm the object of all those companies' affection.Why can't I have an automatic copyright on any information that's collected on me for any reason by anyone?

In a perfect world, every request for any information about me would be require my direct permission. Opting out should be the default.

70 Sorta O/T but maybe part of the WorldWide Conspiracy: I posted on Reason criticizing RON PAUL!! and now I am blocked from subsequent posts as it has labeled me as Spam.

71
How did McCain lose me?

1. He did not understand economics, the most important issue.

2. He lost the ability to make the experience argument.

3. He never defined himself as a principled conservative.

4. Erratic and incoherent, he lacked sufficient mental capacity.

Posted by Ann Althouse November 8, 2008


Hurf durf.....

72 Here's the ongoing exchange between Althouse and Google. Dude takes dickishness to a truly respectable level.

http://tinyurl.com/3b5ovee

73 Reason is a poorly named publication. 

74  I posted on Reason criticizing RON PAUL!! and now I am blocked from subsequent posts as it has labeled me as Spam.

Now THAT'S irony.

75 She was preening the other day after Obama single-handedly strangled Osama with his bare hands. Well, you would have thought Michigan would have taught her something. You would have been wrong.

76 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 13, 2011 08:36 PM (M8E6y)

Now, I don't want anyone saying I implied Ann Althouse wasn't an *idiot*, I just think she's been making the right kind of enemies lately.

Anyone who follows that list by voting for Obama needs a safe environment to work a play in, free from sharp or dull objects.

77

Sorta O/T but maybe part of the WorldWide Conspiracy: I posted on Reason criticizing RON PAUL!! and now I am blocked from subsequent posts as it has labeled me as Spam.

Really, I don't think they're all paultards there. I know they are big fans of Rand.

I still enjoy the site. Nick Gillespe puts out good videos.

78 Well, you would have thought Michigan would have taught her something. You would have been wrong.

Posted by: George Orwell at May 13, 2011 08:37 PM (AZGON)

I think you mean "Wisconsin".

Look, she's going to defend her boyfriend. Even though he's Ashley Wilkes, she's supposed to be in love with him. He has the right credentials, the right parentage, he's just perfect on paper.  So stop mocking her boyfriend!

79 FaceBook stole my Farm last year.

80 OK, I see where she did receive notification. Thanks, Idealist.

Well, I'm on Blogger because it's free, and it looks professional. If my blog were ever to become more than a way simply to keep my writing chops up, and became an actual income-producing property, I'd take it off Blogger and host it myself.

Oh, and I tried to start it on mee.nu first, but even bringing up the start screen for that process took several minutes. This did not bode well, so I gave up.

81 85 FaceBook stole my Farm last year.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at May 13, 2011 08:43 PM (qIHlG)

I fooled them, I salted the earth.

82 I know that Althouse gets lots of link love from Instapundit, but I've never been all that impressed with her. She'll talk a good game about not being a liberal, but if you read her blog long enough you can tell that she's still emotionally wedded to the Democrats.

So no matter what complaints she has about the Democratic candidate, I doubt she'll ever be able to bring herself to vote for a <shudder> conservative. Plus she tends to be rather thin-skinned and quick to anger.

Meh.

83

Holy crap I can't believe that douchebag Google guy in the support forum for the Althouse problem. You don't go to 11 like that right off the bat.

This new generation of computer guys, they are arrogant damn assholes. Yeah, asshole, your job is to answer questions on a forum, you are not a god, you are not even a speck of shit on the backside of a goat.

84 They were also messing with a very good blog

"Gates of Vienna"

Google is changing its name to "Old Dirty Bastards"

85 76 LOL

86 76 The irony,it burns.

87

FaceBook stole my Farm last year.

How do you mean? They didn't like what you were doing so they took it away? Or did they re-distribute it because you weren't being a good comrade? 

88 Blogger has been having technical problems for few days now. It was in 'read only' for over 48 hours.

89 Boy, that "nitecruzr" prick at Blogger forums is a memorable ass.

Bet those "night cruises" have something to do with public restrooms.

90 Yet Blogger leaves Irish Savant up running with "content warning" lol.

91

I fooled them, I salted the earth.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 13, 2011 08:45 PM (73tyQ)

Heh, I've been tempted to fill a spreader with salt but I haven't done it yet.

Yet.

92 95 And whewe is this gentleman?

93
Blogger has been freaking out for days. I haven't been able to access blogs where I've commented for some time.

94

This new generation of computer guys, they are arrogant damn assholes. Yeah, asshole, your job is to answer questions on a forum, you are not a god, you are not even a speck of shit on the backside of a goat.

Posted by: ParanoidWorkingGirlinSeattle at May 13, 2011 08:45 PM (RZ8pf)

I see that mainly with guys who have only worked in IT, and especially for IT-only groups.

So sometimes it's the young guys, who haven't had to deal with anything outside their little world.

Sometimes it's just that people in any walk of life can be pricks, especially if they can't easily be fired.

95 19 16 All the "conservative" women who got wet panties over Obama are dead to me.

Posted by: steevy at May 13, 2011 08:15 PM (MLyR6)

OK a "conservative" woman who got wet panties over Obama, santa claus and the easter bunny...........

96 funny how the nitecruzr guy's comments seem to be missing other than stuff that links directly to other pages.  Althouse is obviously responding to stuff he's saying, but the posts aren't there anymore

97 And no matter what complaints she has about the Democratic candidate, I doubt she'll ever be able to bring herself to vote for a <shudder> conservative.

My recollection is that she's frequently admitted to not voting (although she did vote for Obama). 

I agree with the other folks that think this is a result of going up against Big Academe.  If you read the facebook page they've set up, it really looks like she drew flak for some of her commenters' remarks about those dean candidates.  I bet she starts moderating her blog. 

I find her blog of interest from an entertainment perspective.  I enjoy some of the pop culturey things she covers - I guess it's my version of Real Housewives or People magazine or something.  But she doesn't really strike me as that smart in terms of the law or public policy.  Kind of a privileged lightweight. 

I'm enjoying the whiffs of "how dare you talk to me like that, I'm a professor!" tone that some of her back and forth with the (completely obnoxious) tech guy (redundant, I know) is taking.  Reminds me of the old days.  Good times, good times! 

98 I use Heineken and VO for social networking, memory gets deleted nearly every damn night.
I wouldn't use Google if you had gun to my head.

99 93 Everybody Draw Moohamhead day . I typed the truth about him, some people threatened me and then they seized my FaceBook account. No Farm.

100

Posted by: ErikW at May 13, 2011 08:47 PM (P60UN)

Nevermind, I'm somewhere else, obviuosly.

101 Son of a BITCH. I just updated my blog, and now Blogger is down? Bullshit.

102 Q: What're you doing? A: Nut 'n' Honey!

103 101 You know the ones I mean.Noonan and Parker and Althouse(also Frum and Brooks).

104

I don't know Merovign, I see a sort of weird entitled mentality amongst a lot of young programmers. Like they are going to type some line of code and make a billion dollars any day now. And no one appreciates their pure genius.

I've worked with pure geniuses, and the ability to use already packaged libraries to write a program that collects credit card information ain't it.

105 What time is the clique meeting?

106
Is the disappearance of Anne Althouse a bad thing?

"I am blonde. Here are my fabulous vacation photos. Sarah Palin is a stupid liar." (And for that she gets 500 comments.)

107 She voted for Toonces?

Seriously?

Fuck her.

108 #76  That is just crap.  People who are really conservative understood that McCain was flawed but at least loved the country,  wouldn't stab the military in the back, and was for sensible economic policy.  Also,  he wasn't going to appoint communist judges. As a tenured professor Althouse didn't understand this?  Baloney!

Those are the sophist-type arguments they use to justify whatever type of crap they want to do.  It's the same as the mumbo-jumbo they spout to tell you why a splatter on the wall is art, or why that rapper in the White House was really speaking about Biblical themes.

It's all nothing but BS.  I have seen it since I was a freshman undergrad.  And I have no respect for it.  I would like Althouse better if she just said she voted for Obama because he wasn't old.

109 105 93 Everybody Draw Moohamhead day . I typed the truth about him, some people threatened me and then they seized my FaceBook account. No Farm.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at May 13, 2011 08:52 PM (qIHlG)

Musn't insult the Religion of Peace, or they'll murder you.

110 There's nothing technical about it. No problem is described. It doesn't say unavailable or not found. It's says removed. removed is an active gesture. they removed it.

111 113 She voted for Toonces?

Yes.

Seriously?

Yes

Fuck her.

You first.   

112 They were also messing with a very good blog
"Gates of Vienna"

Still the best blog around on keeping up with Islam in Europe.

113

 they seized my FaceBook account. No Farm.

You are only allowed to be nasty about Republicans, Sarah Palin, and pro-life folks on Facebook, I'm fairly certain it is in their terms of agreement. /sarc

114 Gates of Vienna is up.

115 click *  click *  click

'curious' is out there in the ( asphalt ) jungle, waiting............

116 Voting for Obama is a dealbreaker for me unless the party expresses extreme remorse.Steven A. Smith gets a pass,because he really regretted it.He basically voted out of racial pride,which I can understand.

117 "But she doesn't really strike me as that smart in terms of the law or public policy." You just proved that you are the stupid one. I have a lot of problems with Althouse, but I know she's really that smart in terms of the law and public policy.

118 BigFurHat at IownTheWorld blog just got busted for molesting his daughter.

119 The people at the FB site found nitecruzr (creepy name, pervo). He's some bald middle aged guy who has in his google bio:  "(real name)...has been involved in advocating freedom of speech and spam free Internet."

120

What time is the clique meeting?

It's Friday night, so it depends on who the number one Heather is tonight.

121 Blogger is down for a lot of people. I have three Facebook friends who say that their blogs are not functioning, and they say that some other Blogger sites are down, too.

122

crack em c had his blog deleted the last few weeks. he's a regular conservative commenter at Althouse.

123 I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said yes to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer; every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute curious squats in the bush, she gets stronger

124 1. Blogspot is owned and operated by google on google's terms. 2. You don't need to pay to use blogspot. 3. When they stuff "your" weblog down the memory hole, it's not them what fucked up.

125

I don't know Merovign, I see a sort of weird entitled mentality amongst a lot of young programmers. Like they are going to type some line of code and make a billion dollars any day now. And no one appreciates their pure genius.

Posted by: ParanoidWorkingGirlinSeattle at May 13, 2011 08:53 PM (RZ8pf)

Geniuses never abuse people because they think they're entitled to, they abuse people because they're not paying attention.

I tell techs that acting entitled or like they're anything but in a service profession will get them noticed in a bad way. People are so used to that, however, that when you go in with a "customer service" attitude the customer falls in love with you.

126

The people at the FB site found nitecruzr (creepy name, pervo). He's some bald middle aged guy who has in his google bio:  "(real name)...has been involved in advocating freedom of speech and spam free Internet."

Well then I guess I take back half of what I said. Apparently bald middle aged computer guys can be douche bags too. And the reason he probably advocates freedom of speech is because he's into inappropriate porn and furries.

127 Posted by: George Orwell at May 13, 2011 08:37 PM (AZGON) I think you mean "Wisconsin". Hey, I'm drinking early. As usual.

128 He basically voted out of racial pride,which I can understand. If I told you voted for white people out of racial pride, would you understand?

129 It's a CLICK meeting. But if you were in the click, you'd already know that.

130 134 No but you know it's different.

131 What was the name of the girl who announced on her blog that she was the shit and she was looking for a guy who was up to her exacting standards, Mary Picky Packy Posey or some shit?

132 127 Blogger is down for a lot of people. I have three Facebook friends who say that their blogs are not functioning, and they say that some other Blogger sites are down, too.
Posted by: WarmMountain at May 13, 2011 08:57 PM

Trust the Cloud, look at Clouds from My Side Now ..

133 Hey, I'm drinking early. As usual.

Posted by: George Orwell at May 13, 2011 09:00 PM (AZGON)

Cheers!

134

Mary Picky Packy Posey

I thought she was married to peter peter pumpkin eater...

135 , Mary Picky Packy Posey or some shit?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2011 09:02 PM (TMB3S)

I'd hit it

136 BigFurHat at IownTheWorld blog just got busted for molesting his daughter. You sure about that? I just went there and it wasn't him who was busted.

137 3. When they stuff "your" weblog down the memory hole, it's not them what fucked up.

Posted by: Just a few thoughts at May 13, 2011 08:59 PM (lT0LC)

Yeah, fuckin' peasants, tryin' to speak out. What were they thinking?

I'm sure it was in the TOS.

138 137 What was the name of the girl who announced on her blog that she was the shit and she was looking for a guy who was up to her exacting standards, Mary Picky Packy Posey or some shit?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 13, 2011 09:02 PM (TMB3S)

Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey

139 Orwell, you have a blog?

140 >>Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey Bingo. Damn that was funny while it lasted.

141 @145 No, but James Tiberius Kirk used to channel me from time to time and forced me to erect memoirsofastarshipcaptain dot blogspot dot com kdbabear occasionally gets drafted too

142

Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey

Please tell me you had to look that up and didn't know it by heart...

143 Yeah, fuckin' peasants, tryin' to speak out. What were they thinking? I'm sure it was in the TOS. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 13, 2011 09:04 PM (bxiXv) Don't let incompetent fascist shits (like google.com) do important stuff for you, 'cause it's your fault when they fuck shit up. Unless, you know, you just didn't know that google.com were incompetent fascist shits.

144 Don't let incompetent fascist shits (like google.com) do important stuff for you, 'cause it's your fault when they fuck shit up.

Unless, you know, you just didn't know that google.com were incompetent fascist shits.

Posted by: Just a few thoughts at May 13, 2011 09:10 PM (lT0LC)

Yeah, fuckin North Koreans. It's their own damned fault.

Nice double-down, though.

Seriously, the fact that someone is an asshole is not *actually* an excuse for them being an asshole. That would be recursive.

145 Mind you, a better metaphor would be "fuckin' people goin' to Compton..." but I got North Korea on the brain today for some reason.

146

Know what we haven't had in a while? War pron.

We needs some AH-64s hunting Taliban and AC-130s picking off muzzie douchebags and generally blowing their shit up.

147
I woke up on the morning of October 8, 2008 and "decided to concentrate my mind on the question which man won the debate.... It was Barack Obama...."  That was the post where I abandoned my vow of "cruel neutrality" as an observer of the 2008 campaign, and said my vote for Obama was "almost inevitable."

After the election, when I analyzed my path of decisionmaking — in the post called "How McCain Lost Me" — I said: "So this was the crucial tipping point. Dear readers, it was right there, the morning after the Town Hall debate."

And now, 2 1/2 years after he voted for McCain, here's Meade, drawn back to that same debate. He IM's me the link to that clip about Pakistan. We talk at some length, and he tells me I made the right decision. So you wish you'd voted for him? Yes.

Posted by Ann Althouse May 4, 2011




" I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down Jo me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."

148 Correct me if I'm wrong, but if she was PAYING for hosting, instead of sponging off Google, this wouldn't be an issue, would it?

149 >>>So no matter what complaints she has about the Democratic candidate, I doubt she'll ever be able to bring herself to vote for a <shudder> conservative. Plus she tends to be rather thin-skinned and quick to anger.

Except for the fact that she voted for George W. Bush in 2004 and Ron Johnson and Scott Walker in 2010.  You know, except for that.

Seriously, I just don't understand the reflexive need to CAST ALL THE IMPURE SINNERS OUT!! that's getting more and more vocal around here.  Of COURSE Ann Althouse isn't a conservative (her husband is, though).  She's a classic swing voter, one who swung towards Bush in '04 and towards Obama in '08.  Listen, dudes: that right there is exactly the sort of person we need to convince in 2012 in order to win.  But no, let's just talk about what a silly bitch she is because she's not a female Jim DeMint.

150 Nice double-down, though. Seriously, the fact that someone is an asshole is not *actually* an excuse for them being an asshole. That would be recursive. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 13, 2011 09:12 PM (bxiXv) Nice try, bitch. No, you stupid fucking whore: when you know what someone is and you still trust them YOU are an idiot. Idiot.

151 Posted by: Jeff B. at May 13, 2011 09:18 PM

Are you sure she voted for Walker?  I'm sure I read sometime in the past year at her site that she didn't even bother to vote fairly recently.  I thought it was that election, but perhaps it was a primary. 

152 That's fucked up. I was already pissed off about work tonight, but fuck you Google. It's back to Lycos for me.

153 >>>Are you sure she voted for Walker?  I'm sure I read sometime in the past year at her site that she didn't even bother to vote fairly recently.  I thought it was that election, but perhaps it was a primary.

Yes I'm sure she voted for Walker.  Voted for Johnson as well.  And she voted for Bush in 2004 (back when voting for The Most Evil President In History was practically like declaring membership in the Church of Satan for a member of the ultra-liberal law faculty of an ultra-liberal university).  So your assumption about her not being able to "vote for a conservative" isn't just ridiculous, it's provably false. 

You know what the funniest thing is?  That list of reasons cited above, about how "McCain lost me?"  We'd agree with all of those!  The only difference is that we're all partisan Republicans and conservatives, so despite McCain's shittiness as a candidate, we voted for him anyway.  She's a swing voter, so what did you expect?  You can't honestly claim she was wrong about any of those four points.  And yet, the attacks, the claims that "she's really not that smart" (she's a brilliant legal scholar for fuck's sake), the insults, the dismissals, etc.

I keep saying this: if you dismiss everyone who voted for Obama as unworthy of your time or attention, you are by definition dismissing a majority of the country.  And that means we lose.  Because the whole friggin' point is to welcome those in the middle who voted Obama but have buyer's remorse back into the fold.  NOT to keep shitting down their throats and pissing on their shoes and screaming "YOU STUPID SLUT HOW COULD YOU BE SO FUCKING DUMB I HOPE YOU DIE!"  That is...not constructive. 

154 >>>How did McCain lose me?

1. He did not understand economics, the most important issue.

2. He lost the ability to make the experience argument.

3. He never defined himself as a principled conservative.

4. Erratic and incoherent, he lacked sufficient mental capacity.

Posted by Ann Althouse November 8, 2008

Again: haven't each one of these criticisms been echoed by several AoSHQ commenters?  And I don't mean supposed RINOs, I mean the hardcore blood & guts conservatives?  And yet this is offered as evidence that Althouse is a stupid fool?  Doesn't it seem more like evidence of how McCain completely blew the election and lost swing voters?

155

I'm sure it was in the TOS.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 13, 2011 09:04 PM (bxiXv)

South Park taught me to be wary of Terms of Service.

Which, by the way, is what I'm calling the rules of the class on my syllabus.

156 Pretty sure Althouse is a Democrat.  I don't mean RINO or someone who calls herself a conservative only to bash them all the time...I mean an out and out Democrat.  In fact, I thought she had bluntly said so.

She's more in the Kaus mode, as in she is a liberal (or center-left), but still finds reasons to criticize them constantly.

And, yeah, I do find that more forgivable and somebody like that easier to get along with than people who called themselves conservatives for years only to vote for Obama in '08 when it looked like he was the next big thing and we were in trouble for the foreseeable future.

157 Jeff B. 
While you do have a point,  she is not your average voter.  She is a law professor,  who is supposed to understand things like the Constitution and how thr president gets to appoint judges.

Instead,  she is voting based on how Obama presented himself,  compared to McCain.

Well, I wouldn't insult her,  but her reasons are really pathetic.  I thought McCain did poorly in the debate,  but I voted for him anyway,  because I understood how important the election was.  Apparently she did not.

An then to say that her husband,  who did NOT vote for Obama,  is now sorry he didn't because of the bin Laden thing...well,  that is just pathetic. 

158 What Google is and why they can both "Don't be evil" and be evil at the same time.

Google is Progressive.  By their moral code they aren't evil.  It all depends on what you define evil as.  By our American moral code almost everything they do is Evil.  Which is why I avoid them whenever I can.  Same goes for Wikipedia or Facebook.

Google has already proven they have a political agenda.  They censor who goes into their news based on a site's political p.o.v.  You can be as leftard as you want and stay in while hundreds of right leaning sites are in the memory hole.  Their YouTube service allows jihad videos and bans anyone taking the contrary view.  Ask the Jawas about their inability to keep a YouTube or Facebook account.  Now we are shocked they are deleting Blogspot accounts for political reasons?  I'm not.

There are consequences to almost all of the Internet being founded and ran out of the most crazy bastions of the left coast.  We must shun them, find alternatives and give them our business.

159 Hey it's all the witty comments that were lost that are the real problem. Don't you guys realize they are gonna come for you too.

160

?

161 She's a classic swing voter, one who swung towards Bush in '04 and towards Obama in '08.

Well, I'd expect a little more insight from someone who is getting paid obscene amounts of money to teach at a university even though she doesn't have a Ph.D.

Not just to teach, but to teach the law. If she were actually in a difficult field which would require her time, I'd understand.

But I knew what Obama was.  I know what Obama is.  She doesn't seem clued in. I would very much like to have her job because I can do it better than she can.

162 153

"yes, Yes, YES!

...I love teachers. When you do it wrong they make you do it again."

163 Well, I wouldn't insult her,  but her reasons are really pathetic.

I would insult her.  Her reasons are simply...shallow.

164 It's already back online, or in the process of being so, but you couldn't tell me it would have gone back online this fast if she didn't have the kind of high profile she does.

In other words, if the same thing happened to a weenie blogger who runs a blog named My Kitty Bitties and draws five visits a day, he be fucked, yall.

Don't ya just love the Internet caste system?

165 In defense of Althouse (though I see others have already pointed this out), she's never claimed to be right wing or conservative. I recall she was fond of a description that came from a commenter once, something like "a crusty conservative with creamy hippy love chick center." She's reviled & accused of being an extreme wingnut teabagger by lefties outraged by her heresy; she's accepted & embraced by many conservatives (including her excellent conservative commenters) for being just what she is, an "independent" whose views often (not always) skew right, and who is all too willing to skewer the left. IMO that's her forte: when she's on, she's one of the best fiskers on the web. A masterful filleter of lefty bullshit. I especially admire her willingness to be that kind of iconoclast & persona non grata-- she's a Rush Limbaugh fan, for pete's sake-- in the world of academia, in a milieu like Wisconsin.

Yes, she often seems all too defensive about her decision to vote for Obama (over McCain)-- seizing any pretext to justify that decision-- but that's very different from defending or justifying *Obama himself* during his presidency, which she very rarely does. On the contrary, she's pretty consistently critical of O & his administration, mordantly acidly scathingly so. In that sense, she's nothing like Brooks/ Frum/ Parker et al.

166

It's a per hit click, all about the revenue.

167 On the contrary, she's pretty consistently critical of O & his administration, mordantly acidly scathingly so. In that sense, she's nothing like Brooks/ Frum/ Parker et al.

She'll vote for him again.

Tomato tomahto, they're all retards.

168 " I agree KOW. After hitting her site through fellow-academician Instapundit's site for the WI stuff and the odd other thing before the WI issues, she lost it in defending her Obama vote and something else similar that I can't recall now so it's no loss to me practically.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 13, 2011 08:13 PM (Y1DZt)"

Think of it this way: some of the things she says seem really misguided to a conservative.  The Obama vote explanation has a lot of weakness to it.

But it's really difficult to find an earnest Obama supporter who just lays out their case without being a dick.  It's not like we have to agree with them.  It's just interesting to consider her points.

And when you do, a lot of it makes sense.  Mccain failed to be what the GOP candidate needs to be, and there's a real question as to long term effect of such a presidency.  I think Obama is still just too bad to be a reasonable alternative.  The stakes are just too high.  But it's worth considering other POVs.

It is a loss to you if you just write off blogs that don't abide by your personal preferences, IMO.

169 "
Well, I'd expect a little more insight from someone who is getting paid obscene amounts of money to teach at a university even though she doesn't have a Ph.D.

Not just to teach, but to teach the law. If she were actually in a difficult field which would require her time, I'd understand.

But I knew what Obama was.  I know what Obama is.  She doesn't seem clued in. I would very much like to have her job because I can do it better than she can.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 13, 2011 09:40 PM (73tyQ)"

A lot of her posts have really ticked me off too.  She does seem clueless sometimes, or at best extremely naive.  But I do think a top rank school's JD is more impressive than a lot of PHDs out there, such as one in a soft liberal arts area.

Anyhow, I think some of her points about Obama actually were prescient.  The idea that he would ruin that antiwar movement by failing to be the antiwar president they dreamed of, for example.  I also think a Mccain presidency would have made it extremely difficult for the GOP to restrain spending (not that they seem to be doing much of it right now anyway).

She doesn't pretend to be very serious about politics.  I don't think that's what her blog is for, or a fair way to praise it.  It's free content, after all.  And some of her coverage of news and issues has been really interesting.

170 #163: Agreed on that last point. Does Mr. Ann Althouse really believe McCain wouldn't have authorized similar action? And much quicker, to boot? I don't think the advisor would be able to finish saying "We found Osam-" before McCain interrupted with "Kill him. Kill him now. Kill him with fire. I'm taking a nap now; wake me when he's dead."

171 McCain would probably also throw a "my friend" or two into that order, for good measure.

172 Sorry, but I have no sympathy for Althouse.  First, Google is a for-profit corporation.  They can do whatever they want; they are responsible only to their shareholders.  Who are probably giddy with delight at this point in time.  Second, this is a FREE SERVICE that they offer, and it's not like there aren't other options out there.  They aren't a public utility. So if Althouse wasn't such a cheapskate, this wouldn't even be an issue.

Plus she's a spoiled, overpaid academic.  Her insights are not particularly insightful.  Her frame of reference is narcissistic, and overly self-satisfied.  If she can't pony up the hosting fee, I can live without her opinions (and photographs of herself having cappuccinos), as well as the comments of such creepy posters as Titus, whom she indulges on a personal whim.  And Google's dime.

173 I think Ace should make Althouse an honorary cob-logger.

174 If you think this is something new, forget it.  We had our site designated as an "Attack Site!" back a coupla summers ago.  Never found out why.  It was bogus.  But there was little we could do about it except file some sort of appeal, which Google got around to in their own sweet time.  Meanwhile, SHECKYmagazine.com was slamming the door in the face of our thousands of daily visitors and they were all told that our site was a possible virus risk!

We finally-- after going through all kinds of bullshit-- got our site restored.  Others are not so tenacious or so lucky.

175 182 I think Ace should make Althouse an honorary cob-logger.
Posted by: Robert at May 14, 2011 12:43 AM

I agree-- to quote from one of the links:

"a..festival of misogyny and homophobia."

She'd fit right in here... seriously, she was a co-blogger at Insty while Glenn was vacationing and she didn't seem to dent it up too badly.

I don't care if she did vote for Duh!1- that's her right as a free American- she runs a good blog and allows a lot of varying comments.  And she was treated very shabbily.

176 I don't think Jackie 3P is doing very well. She's married and says she is happy but she is being treated for depression and not getting good grades. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!

177 Whoops! Make that Jackie 1M2P

178

I don't trust any communist name Sergey!

 

179 All Blogspot blogs were screwed up yesterday and the day before.

180 Not evil , worse than evil.

181 There is a difference between what happened to the rest of the Blogspot blogs and Ann Althouse.  Other blogs lost posts or froze but were still there.  Althouse was TAKEN DOWN.  AFAIK, the "taken down" screen comes up only in response to a blog that has actually been removed, either by its owner or the blog host.  The idea that "data corruption in routine maintenance" could remove only one blog out of dozens stretches credulity.

It occurs to me that the smaller problems with other blogs were nothing less than a smoke screen to obscure what was being done to Althouse. 

We have not see the last of this.

182 It occurs to me that the smaller problems with other blogs were nothing less than a smoke screen to obscure what was being done to Althouse.

That sounds a bit nutty.

183 I like Althouse because she's an original thinker and independent. Her coverage of the union thuggery in Wisconsin was fantastic. So what if she voted for Obama? She's not a lockstep thinker, and that's what makes her entertaining and thought-provoking.

184

Ace doesn't blogroll Althouse?

185 They did it twice to me. Once was down for two months. The second time a few days. The first was deliberate and I kept telephoning two employees that a Google search identified as those responsible for this issue. One wasn't, and he put that on his voice mail, but I kept leaving messages anyway. The second guy never responded, but two months later I got my blog back.

186 I wasn't even in the Gewge retinue/aggregration .... was delisted. For years (no response ... as predicted, to any email inquiry). And now Gewge is in bed with the IslamoCommieJunta [though I'm sure they feel turned out ... like a two dollah ho (with Buraq and Zuckerberg now gettin it on)]. Some peeps don't get it ... having voted for thuh Won.

blah blah/ymmv

187 discount rosetta stone Inc. last announced its quarterly last results cheap rosetta stone on Monday, may 9th. The business reported earnings every write about (EPS) for the earlier quarter, missing the Thomson rosetta stone discounts Reuters consensus estimation of through exactly the exact quarter while in the before year, the business posted earnings every share.

188 cheap jerseys cheap nfl jerseys cheap nba jerseys

189 Karen Millen dresses

190 We are a professional foreign trade website, mainly engaged in all kinds of polo shirts. OurCrested polo shirtsnow. Welcome to our website for shopping.