Note to the High Sheriffs

and Preview, please.

and carriage return double please

Not until BHO declares his, and USA's, allegiance to Israel (uber alles)..

and a pony. since we're wishing.

Many thanks, KT. An extra cookie with your milk this afternoon!

I like the banner. It's very simple and tasteful. But since I usually read these posts in my blog reader, I never look at it anyway. I had to stop by to take a look at it to see what all the fuss was about.

Change it if you must, but don't make it tacky.

Yes please, a humane and hopeful picture of BHO as befits Swampland. Please remember, oh High Sheriffs, that many of us visit the Swamp several times a day, and we'd like a nice picture to look at. Off to the side, as you had during the election, where we can actually see his face. This current one looks like somebody's twisted idea of being "artistic." Didn't succeed.

and ditto on the carriage returns. I've started putting dots between paragraphs in all my other writing, and it's disconcerting.
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Would somebody explain the advantage of preview to me? I never used it. Does it tell you if your html tags are working?

How much does Scherer make? Surely you could hire an army of graphic artists and web programmers for whatever you're paying him. He already has his eye on the Weekly Standard and Jebby's future in politics...

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KT: ..might it be possible to do something about the banner at the top of this blog?
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What, did they lose the old one or something?
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Come to think of it, when those low sherriffs thought that the Repugs were having it rough during the predential campain, they searched low and foisted Mike Murphy on the poor swamplanders.

Can't they find someone to restore sanity and balance in this Swamp by by offering counter arguments to Joe Klein's extreme, pro-(state)terrorism and blatantly pro-Israel pronouncements?

Thank you Karen! Haven't been happy with that banner since the general election. Oh and grape_crush, thanks for finding the old image. Now that the election is over, doesn't it make sense to go back to something more general like that old banner? That would be my vote...our gov't is more than just one man...

pixels are expensive! Actually some of the problems don't seem to be not really "big money" related. The old swampland banner for example. That is 10 seconds of coding work to restore.

grape crush. How'd you do that? Where did you find it archived?

MSNBC is running a story that Burris will be seated later this week. I want my internet bucks!

I'm with ymm. Its not a blog about Obama (or, one hopes it isn't) so the banner should be more general.

And while they're at it, the high sheriffs should get the entries under "more Time Blogs" updated (Swampland still lists you, joe, ana, and jay, and Work in Progress is no longer, um, progressing) and the description for The Page -- unless Halperin is STILL "covering the 2008 campaign"....

Actually, KT's description of the banner is kind of an apt metaphor for the state of the country that Bush is handing Obama.
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For eight years, BushCo has been treating us all like mushrooms. His "Reputation Reclamation Tour" has just been more of the same.

Until Obama gets into the White House's basement and gets some fuses changed, we're all gonna remain pretty much in the dark.

Here's hoping that he finds the locks on the window shutters and starts letting some sunlight in.

From The High Sheriffs: Karen, per your request, the top banner is being replaced today. (Although we may have to cut part of your budget to pay for the new pixels.)

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kathy: How'd you do that?
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Yahoo image search using the keywords of "Swampland banner" sans double-quotation marks. The site doesn't actually show the image on the page any longer, but (a) the image hasn't been deleted from the server storing that image, and (b) the search engine stored the URL pointing to that image.
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trifecta55: That is 10 seconds of coding work to restore.
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Yup.

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Sorry, couldn't afford the close tag for the linky.
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I hate to be down on Time, because I absolutely love the magazine. But it says a lot about an organization when one of its most prominent content producers has to post such requests to a public blog in order for someone to pay attention.

@christophermgomez...welcome to the Great Depression 21st century style...where requests for handouts, and the like are submitted via blog posts, youtube videos, and tweets.

well, that was quick!
They managed to delete Work in Progress from the "more time blogs" section at right...but I guess that person can't type, because Swampland's description remains the same (although its possible that office politics means that someone higher up has to okay the way the names are ordered in the new listing...)

I, personally, think a banner with the Congress building sinking into an actual swamp would be appropriate. Being Swampland and all.
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Although I am a strong Obama supporter, I have found it very extremely and like totally odd to have his, and only his, picture at the top of the blog since the election. Other than the fact that it surely makes MS' skin crawl (a good thing that gives me pleasure) it seems inappropriate.
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And, really, if you want to make wingernuts skin crawl, put a pic of Sen. Al Franken up there.
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And - what kathy said about periods between paragraphs. I find myself doing it elsewhere as well.

Banner: Way to go democrats - take back the American flag image!!