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We’ve moved to a new server

[UPDATE: COMMENTS ARE OPEN AGAIN NOW, and we are publishing NEW STORIES SHORTLY. - SusanUnPC]

Okay, folks, our migration is over. We’re on a new high-powered cluster and we’ll be kicking the tires and watching to make sure everything works okay.

You probably have the old server address in your cache, and it can take several days for all the different pathways in the internet to stop going to that old server and start finding our new server. That’s why you might have trouble reaching us for awhile, or get old pages when you do reach us. It’s because you’re still getting stuff off the old server.

So do this:

1. Clear your cache in your browser. (I hope you know how to do that!)
2. Close your browser.
3. Open up your command prompt — that’s the MS-DOS prompt, the old-fashioned black window. In XP, you can access that through Programs/Accessories. When you get the black DOS window, type in this at the C prompt: ipconfig /flushdns
Then press enter.
4. Close your MS-DOS command window.
5. Re-boot your computer.

If you do all those steps, that should clear out all the old pathways to our old server.

Let us know if you have any problems. And tell other folks, too, since if people are trying to find us using their old bookmarks, etc., they’re probably still going to our old server.

Within a few days every place in the internet should be pointing to our new server correctly.

  • athena

    Woo-hoo! You are back. I am more addicted to you than coffee, Diet Dr. Pepper and chocolate combined!

  • KintheNorthwest

    So whats everyone think about the Governor of Hawaii sealing Obama’s BC.
    How about this new video on spreading the wealth.

  • mimi

    Yaayyyyy!

    This is a test to see if I can post without doing all the things listed.

  • http://www.deathofthedemocraticparty.com xax

    They won’t know what to do if they can’t get to you.

    I’m just being an ass.

  • I have a bracelet 2

    YesQ.

    congrats. finally we r on the SUPER highway. 6 lanes each way and no speed limit.

    also in high gear for the last week

    love the stick shift

  • AM

    test

  • mimi

    Things are looking up. I posted with no problema.

    If I encounter a problem I will follow the instructions to clear out my cache.

  • http://medusa2.wordpress.com medusa

    So glad NoQ is back up and running. It’s a desert out here without you all!

  • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

    Yay! This is great…haven’t been able to get on NQ for DAYS now and am seriously in need of a fix…there is no other blog like NQ.

  • Buzz Latte

    Test> I’m on a iMac. Just checking to see if I have to do something.

    Glad NQ is back.

    Okay…it says to fill in name and email…

    Did that.

  • Steve1

    Way to go!

  • jj

    According to Drudge report…zogby poll out tomorrow morning which show Obama with only a 4point lead…very close to the margin of error!!!

  • Buzz Latte

    Okay…everything is cool!

    Yeah!!

  • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

    I saw this. I think all that it means is that unless BO gives the ok, we are not going to see the BC (if there is one).

    After all, BO believes he has the election in the bag and that he is above the law and the Constitution.

  • leslie

    Funny, that.
    I guess his “gravely ill grandmother” had her bed adjacent to the Governor’s mansion.

  • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

    Ain’t that the truth! :-)

    The only sane place on the planet these days…

  • Buzz Latte

    I’ve now had it with my state’s Dem. Party, too. I will be voting straight GOP except for one local county position.

    It will be a pleasure!

  • Steve1

    Why can’t we question Mr. Soetoro’s birth of origin? Where are his medical records? If American citizen can’t ask-who can?

  • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

    Yes, straight Repub ticket for me as well. Never thought I’d see the day!!!

  • lisa in va

    Okay, people, this is important. Why no real chatter about the aol straw poll? Why would this poll not be the most accurate out there? Last week over 210,000 votes. Oblahblah only won 4 states for a total of 51 electoral votes.

    Rules to play, can only vote once (restricted by IP addy). You pick you candidate, pick your state & can’t vote again until the new poll is up on Friday.

    I googled it & the obots think the Repubs are somehow bypassing security and voting multiple times. But as a moderate, I think college age obots are more likely to do that than those of us with jobs, families and lives.

    Also, I checked out the demographics of aol users & it didn’t seem all that slanted towards older people.

    AOL Demographics

    35 million members worldwide
    2.7 million peak simultaneous users
    400 million e-mails sent and received daily
    13.4 billion Web URLs served daily
    70 minutes online per member daily
    More than 2.1 billion instant messages sent daily across the AOL network

    Gender
    Male: 43%
    Female: 57%

    Marital Status
    Single: 38%
    Married: 62%

    Education
    College Grad: + 51%

    Age Composition
    18-24: 15%
    25-34: 18%
    35-44: 25%
    45-54: 24%
    55-64: 12%
    65+: 7%

    Household Income
    $50k+: 63%
    $75k+: 40%
    $100k+: 23%

    Occupation
    Professional/Managerial: 30%
    Self-employed: 11%

    Source:
    http://www.aolyellowpages.com/advertisers/1/H_why_demog_aol.htm

    ***I don’t see how it is broken up by race; which might be interesting as well.

    So, whats the deal? Do you think this poll is probably more accurate than the others? If you think it is flawed, how so?

  • katmandu

    Just dropping in a few comments here to spice things up.

    Red State says people should not vote for Ted Stevens or Don Young. http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/27/redstate-endorses-mark-begich-democrat-for-s/

    I think it is important to vote for person and not party, and I’m glad Red State did that. I know National Review has been on Ted Stevens’ case a long time.

    One thing great about NQ is that it is a no-party blog. It calls them as it sees them. And that has really ticked off a lot of Obama supporters, who seem to think that if you are anti-Obama you must be a Republican. Such accusations by Obama supporters suggest to me that the person making the accusation has a very limited ability to analyze facts and events.

    And Drudge says tomorrow’s Zogby will show McCain creeping a point closer.

    Oh, yes. Rasmussen’s gubernatorial ratings are out (no, it’s not a rating of peanuts) and Obama’s friend Blagojevich has a four percent approval rating. Four? Palin, in contrast, has a 62% positive rating from Alaskans.

    Here are some of the noteworthy ratings:

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/favorables/governors_approval_ratings

    Tim Kaine 45%

    Ed Rendell 39%

    Bill Richardson 47%

    Deval Patrick 38% (another Obama friend)

    Bobby Jindal 77%

    Kathleen Sebelius 46%

    Arnold Schwarzenegger 35%

  • Typewriterstreaming

    OMG ! I almost needed an intervention!!!! Hurrah! I missed the articles. I missed the comments! I missed the smiley faces!! I missed the whole kit and kabbodle.
    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

  • Angel

    Yea!!!! I’m so thrilled to see you guys again! Thanks NQ!

  • requiredreading

    testing. Phew! I felt like I had lost a friend…..

  • Andrew

    Brother went all bot in Florida. Extremely depressed. Any consolation?

  • Typewriterstreaming

    I thought of you WasL – I heard Sen McCain and at the end of his speech the best: Fight for your country Fight!!!!

  • lisa in va

    By the way, I needed a fix, so I went by Gretawire & read a couple of the posts. Some O’bot called McCain a fascist. Aren’t these ‘bots supposed to be college students? Are they still teaching political philosophy? Heck, I learned about fascism in Jr High school. What a bunch of doofus’s.

  • leslie

    your consolation:
    I saw my first McCain/Palin canoaugn button today – in Chicago – worn by the most beautiful AA woman I have seen.
    She said she had to send away for it as the campaign headquarters had no buttons left. She was quite proud of that button. And happy that noticed and wasn’t ready to crucify her.

  • requiredreading

    Sister went all bot in New York (except it’s worse for you because Florida actually matters). Consolation: the “Obama the Redistributor” tag (from McCain today) is going to turn a lot of people away from BO here in Florida — especially the hard working immigrant community who have “old fashioned” values like hard work, save, and earn your keep.

  • betty

    Hey is Tampa girl on? This is sis

  • lisa in va

    Yeah, you can call and give him your consolations on November 5th.

  • Typewriterstreaming

    I was kind of surprised by that – She was the one who called O Nadda, Zippo, Zero at the convention, a real highlight for me. She is towing the O line. No one was getting that BC without Oblowme’s say so – I hear they stored it in the belly of an alligator.

  • Steve_in_KC

    I think AOL is pretty centered. I know the urban kids think it’s a joke, but there are many people in this country who still do not have access to high speed Internet, and dial-up is still their only option. Also, many people who travel a lot for work keep a dial-up account for when they are travelling.

    I think the fact that AOL is used by people who don’t live in urban areas is important, in terms of this poll. I don’t know for a fact, but I highly suspect that most telephone polls are conducted in large cities and are not reaching the outlying areas at all. AOL is reaching everybody, and it is one of the few online polls that can’t be gamed.

    AOL’s poll has shown McCain polling strongly since June. I believe it’s at the very least a counterpoint to the urban polls.

  • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

    interesting observation lisa…these online polls are not advertised as “scientific” and probably have some real deficits but I am not qualified to speak about that at all.

    The one thing that comes to mind is this…this poll is only sampling people who have internet access and not those without, so that alone makes it non-representative of the general population.

  • Stray

    Ahhh Great to see you all again :) !!

  • Andrew

    Hey Lisa, how is it looking in Virginia?

  • Steve_in_KC

    Refresh is faster, but posting still seems to take a minute or more.

  • Steve_in_KC

    Refresh is faster, but posting still seems to take a minute or more.

  • Steve_in_KC

    It intercepted one double post, but my triple click still got two past the filter! :)

  • NoQuarter

    Test comment for timing.

  • fif

    God–that was awful. Almost 3 days without NoQ! We were all jonesing…

    NOTE: Dickie Morris just made a plug on FOX. He said Joe the Plumber just hit Obama with the left, and now it’s time for the right–Rev. Wright. McCain won’t do it, and the RNC won’t do it, but there’s a “courageous” (Dick’s word) group out there, GOPtrust.com who are raising money to push out $2-3 million worth of Wright ads, and that could seal the election.

  • Steve_in_KC

    OK, I guess only about half a minute, now that I time it.

  • Angel

    Hi Lisa,

    Nope, you can’t bypass the system and vote again, even after clearing your cache or signing on to another screen name you might have.

    What’s been odd (in a marvelous way) is that McCain has been consistently ahead by a really large margin for a couple of months now there.

    Of course the article responses are chock-full of Obama cultists, who have sadly given up their critical thinking skills in this election. But I’ve also noticed there’s plenty of McCain supporters (both Republican and Democrats) who are very much in the know about the issues, and because they’re able to articulate their point without resulting to juvenile insults, I’d like to think they’re able to give any who might undecided something reasonable to consider.

  • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

    Yes, the GOP trust has ads ready to go…you can see them and donate to get them out to swing states here:

    http://nationalrepublicantrust.com/

    The one on Rev. Wright is particularly hard-hitting.

  • karen for Clinton, um, McPalin

    Missed this site so much!

    code red: youtube.com/watch?v=mB5H_WRi5Vo

    Baracchio: youtube.com/watch?v=bClMnGPwmUc

  • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

    Woot! Woot!

  • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

    Love this quote:

    “Always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth.” — RONALD REAGAN

  • lisa in va

    I really don’t know. My gut says McCain will easily carry VA. My inner worrier is a little nervous.

    The area I live in is predominately AA. My gut feeling is that most will vote O’blahblah.

    I’m hoping that the AA’s in my neighborhood (upper class, AA doctors and surgeons and professors), will vote with their pocketbooks and not by the color of the candidates skin; but I’m not sure. It’s been my experience that AA’s are so hungry for a leadership role, that they will accept (and re-elect) AA public officials irregardless of their indiscretions and illegal activities).

  • Papoose

    Uppity Woman, on October 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm Said:
    God, what do I do with this?
    http://thethirdjihad.com/30min.html

    32 minutes of thinking required. Hint: Other neighborhood and global connections in addition to the Supreme Educator Ayres and the Chicago Political Union … United States Congress…Fourth Estate…

    Makes September 11th look like fly poop in pepper as that was the beginning…

    Take the time, Friends. No one else is going to inform you.

  • Papoose

    Except for JOE Markmywords Biden.

  • Papoose

    How we doin’?

  • Tj

    OT

    Team sarah getting pounded by trolls in the chat tonight.

  • Papoose

    Type~~~~~~~~~~~~streaming,

    Hello! Hurray! How are you? Thank goodness our hostess took off on Friday…she was cooking this weekend.

  • Liz B

    I wanted to thank all the AA’s I saw at the Palin Rally today in Leesburg, VA.
    For all of us caucasians who have been afraid (legitimately) to put bumper stickers on our cars, or signs in front of our houses, what kind of courage do you think you would have to possess to be an AA voting GOP against Obama? I salute you all.

  • Papoose

    cool…women need to unite…Again

  • NoQuarter

    I’m seeing about 20 seconds for a comment to appear. I’ll keep watching it. We may need to optimize something or other.

  • Liz B

    Tim kaine sucks. Put me down for the 55% who don’t approve of the job he is doing. It is past time for him to go.

  • Papoose

    Yep, it’s only a matter of time before we know who the Americans are and those who saw fit to Change* Her.

    *uhmmmhmmm. lawful larceny

  • snosandy

    I can’t believe my governor (Gregoire) with a 40% approval rating is leading in our polls.

  • snosandy

    Mine are posting almost instantly.

  • Liberty Belle not for Obama

    Testing this to see if on. What happened with Barry’s birth certificate, really? The Hawaiian Governor is a Republican, right?

  • KathyNeocon

    What a surprise. They won’t let up until they bring that site to its knees. ***holes.

  • Liberty Belle not for Obama

    Check out Greta now. Lynn is on!

  • DJ

    testing…. don’t know if it matters for me. Im still on dial-up. :(

  • DJ

    In Chicago?! Really? A very courageous woman. Other AA probably give her a hard time.

  • NoQuarter

    Ah, that’s an extra special upgrade, one that reaches out and turns each visitor’s dial-up connection into broadband. We haven’t sprung for that yet. :)

  • Paul

    Testing comment speed.

  • CognitiveDissonance

    Thank God NQ is back! I’ve really missed you.

  • Tess

    Holy Moley! NQ is so fine this a.m. I’ve been here for 35 minutes! Guys, I don’t have this kind of time.
    OT: an idea I used on another NQ post: I’m an election judge. It’s gonna be a messy election. So vote now. Call your city clerk, call your secy of state, find out where to go, find a way to be indisposed, out of town, and vote absentee ballot. You simply have no idea how many registered voters vote by absentee ballot. And it’s not easy to fraud up that vote.
    But do it now, today before Obama figures out how to make that impossible for us.
    PUMA now more than ever

  • witness08

    I feel like I’ve been in exile without NQ. There’s really nothing comparable out there. I’ve been searching.

  • Annie

    Hurrah! I am jumping with joy…. put on my little fridge piano magnet…. HURRAH!

    No Quarter is back!

  • Annie

    Hurrah! I am jumping with joy…. put on my little fridge piano magnet and dancing with relief…. HURRAH!

    No Quarter is back!

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