[Update: I made several changes this morning, including changing the WordPress “theme”, and suddenly several of your test comments have come through properly. Could it be fixed??]
I’m still working through suggested solutions to the ongoing problem with comments.
Although a few comments are getting through, most reports I’ve received concern comments that were entered but then just disappeared, or nothing happened when attempting to leave a comment.
Here’s where you can help.
Take a moment to write a brief comment and submit it, then let me know what happens. At some point I’ll hopefully stumble into the solution and it would be good to know when the whole comment machinery is working again. You can email me at ian(at)ilind.net.
Apologies for the disruption.
It’s a major pain in the you-know-what.
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PARIS — France’s president decried the bloodshed across Paris as an “act of war” Saturday, as authorities across Europe joined forces with raids and investigations after attacks that killed at least 129 people and sharply raised the stakes in battles against the Islamic State.
As if in response to the tough declarations by President François Hollande, the Islamic State moments later asserted responsibility for the worst attacks in France since World War II and among of the most deadly terrorist strikes on Western soil since Sept. 11, 2001.
Friday’s carnage by eight known attackers also further reinforced worries of expanded Islamic State reach through recruitment and propaganda, and apparent evolving tactics among its fighters that include commando-style raids against its foes in the West and elsewhere.
looks like the above ^^^^ did post.
Trying to post.
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Onward!
Trying again to leave a comment since others now have succeeded!
30 minutes ago, there were 6 comments.
now they are gone?
Oh, boy…the mystery deepens!
When I view the page, it shows the eight comments, but you apparently don’t. So once again, I’m not sure what’s going on. Gremlins!
lol – the main page showed 0 comments …… until i posted a comment.
Open comment time, huh? All right.
ISIS is contained. So sez Obama. Then nine hours later,….
My goodness. Are we also supposed to believe this man’s judgement on the nuclear deal in Iran? Or taking in Syrian 10000 Syrian refugees?
President Obama:
“I don’t think they’re gaining strength. What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq, and in Syria they’ll come in, they’ll leave. But you don’t see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain. What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We’ve made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters, and part of our goal has to be to recruit more effective Sunni partners in Iraq to really go on offense rather than simply engage in defense.”
drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrama about Obamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa……………
Testing again. 12:50 a.m. Sunday.
Okay……strange things in the post. But here goes. Hope it is okay.
This is a transmission test for circuit adjustment purposes.
When the first batch of Hawaiian sovereignty activists seized the Iolani Palace grounds and proclaimed the restoration of the kingdom, and even before I knew who they were, I heard someone else outside the fence with me ridicule the takeover. I turned to him and said that to me it seemed deeply pono. The insurgent guard inside the fence was even more startled at that than I was, but I was speaking from the heart. By the time a rival sovereignty group did the same thing a few months later, I was more cautious.
I think the sovereignty movement really is deeply pono if you look at it one way—and a crazy mess of competing, would-be monarchs if you look at it another way. Normal human foolishness, here in Hawaii as anywhere, is enough to make some craziness. I imagine, though, that there are outside interests that might pay to make it crazier if it at some point it wasn’t crazy enough. Too paranoid?
I am an American who has lived in Hawaii most of his life and has Hawaiian family. I have no claim to the throne.
I am seeing posts and will leave another. Maybe another comment on the Paris attack. This seems designed to upset Westerners into taking actions against Muslims in general, which can generate new members for the terrorists. Something they would do if current interventions are working against them.
LONDON — French warplanes struck Islamic State militants in Syria on Sunday, a French government official said, two days after attackers linked to the terrorist group carried out a coordinated assault on Paris that killed 132 people.
Prior to the attack on Paris, France had been sparing in its strikes against targets in Syria.
News reports in France said the airstrikes were focused on Raqqa, the city in northern Syria that is the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State.
The attackers in Friday’s terrorist assault in Paris communicated at some point beforehand with known members of the Islamic State in Syria, officials on both sides of the Atlantic say, adding evidence to the assertions that the radical group coordinated or helped carry out the attacks rather than simply inspired them.
President François Hollande of France has characterized the attacks as “an act of war” carried out by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. He provided no specific information, but the Islamic State released statements on Saturday claiming responsibility for the attacks, part of increasing indications that the group is becoming more capable of extending its reach far beyond its base in Syria and Iraq.