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I have a wordpress site up and running but have been unable to install any plugins or install a new theme.
When I try installing themes I always get update failed and
When I try installing a plugin it fails with this message - Installation failed: 500 Internal Server Error <!--[if lte IE 6]><![endif]--> Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Hope I'm just missing something simple and easy to fix - thanks in advance for any help 🙂
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Is this a browser specific issue @chaz1819 or is this happening with any browser you choose? Are there specific packages that you can't upload properly or is this happening with everything?
roy darling *my posts seem a lot shorter in my head
Hi Roy, seems to be with all plug ins and best I can do with a theme upload is partial. Tried different browsers but no luck 😞
Are you using the Managed WordPress option from GoDaddy @chaz1819. I assume that your internet connection is sound and it doesn't take an extraordinary amount of time to upload your files? Have you tried unzipping the packages and uploading them via FTP like using FileZilla: FTP settings to upload your website? Perhaps calling or chatting with support might be worthwhile?
roy darling *my posts seem a lot shorter in my head
Thanks for the help Roy, things seem to work well with themes and plug-ins if I download off wp and then upload through file manager.
Every time I try to install one, I get an 500 Internal Server Error. I managed to get a few installed by changing the PHP version, then changing the .htaccess to .htaccess_old, but overall, it's still not working. I'm running a single Wordpress site on Plesk via GoDaddy.
I'm not really a tech person, so this is beyond frustrating for me. I've tried a lot of the solutions online but no dice. I really appreciate any help y'all can give me.
I would like to follow one tutorial in youtube and purchase these theme for 59 USD but unfortunately i cannot install it I email the website where i purchase it, they said i should request to the domain provider to allowed this theme to be install on my wordpress, Can you help me guys maybe you experience same problem, and do you know how can I contact godaddy im basing Dubai UAE, do they have email?..
Thank you
Hi, I have installed an "Easy Table" plugin from godaddy wordpress plugin list and activated it. But I am not able to see the plug in on the pagebuilder "Add Content" option. Can someone pls help.
I have a Managed Wordpress site under construction that I need to install CiviCRM. I was able to upload the plugin file and start the setup process. However, I got stuck in the first step because CiviCRM needs the MySQL Database Settings to connect (MySQL server, username, password).
I couldn't find this information in my account setting page. Is there a way to get this information?
Every site was getting a php error at some point the other day and now the option for adding plugins in the admin cp dissapeared. What's going on?
I purchased a domain and managed WordPress through godaddy today. I have a few issues.
1. The WordPress admin page only allows me to view themes and manipulate the site's appearance.
I have used WordPress before and know that there are more options.
2. I cannot add plugins. GoDaddy's troubleshooting guide takes me back to its WP admin page which only has themes.
3. I cannot login to my site via wordpress.org.
I though using Godaddy for both my domain and WordPress hosting would be seamless but it appears to be limiting compared to what I can do on WordPress directly.
I upgraded, paid for migration but my site is down. I installed WP into the new business hosting account but the theme will not appear. I believe the version of WP I paid to migrate is below their current WP App choices.
Many thanks in advance.
Lisa aka HypoGal
the wordpress start wizard is not allowing me to use theme and proceed furthure
I have a problem with upload limit using third party theme, godaddy is not helpful, i need to increase the file upload limit. please help
I was having the same problem. I just now went into my GoDaddy account to the Control Panel. There is an option there to Manage Plugins, Manage Themes. I was able to use that tool to upload my plugins without any problems.
Can you please update WordPress because certain themes are creating a Parse Error. You have to go into "file manager" and delete the theme to even operate WordPress. I was told the host needs to update WordPress on the database side...currently running outdated 5.5 Thank you.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/content/t/e/r/terry27/html/test/wp-content/themes/aza-lite/inc/customizer.php on line 221
I have an older site on my Managed WordPress account, which doesn't have Page Builder. I have tried adding Page Builder via SFTP, but I get the below errors and it doesn't work correctly to re-build the home page. The URL I am working with is postoncollective.com.
How can I add Page Builder to this site correctly?
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wp_register_script(), called in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas09_data01/42/2494442/html/wp-content/plugins/button-maker/buttons.php on line 124 and defined in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas09_data01/42/2494442/html/wp-includes/functions.wp-scripts.php on line 145
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/p3pnexwpnas09_data01/42/2494442/html/wp-includes/functions.wp-scripts.php:145) in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas09_data01/42/2494442/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1179
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/p3pnexwpnas09_data01/42/2494442/html/wp-includes/functions.wp-scripts.php:145) in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas09_data01/42/2494442/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1179
I'm new to this. I was wondering if there is a way to upload a plug in to my web site?
Thank you in advance for any help.
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I'm new to this. I was wondering if there is a way to upload a plug in to my web site?
Thank you in advance for any help.
@jrotcportraits Is your website Wordpress?
Hi all,
I've just installed wordpress for my domain, and time I go to upload a theme to the backend, it uploads the theme to 100% and then returns - "HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error", every time. I've tried increasing memory via .htaccess and PHP ini file, but it doesn't appear to help. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks!
So this has been pretty frustrating and I can't figure out if it's an error with the hosting/servers or issue with Wordpress..but basically I can't do anything with plugins, because if I do, I get a long error message at the top of my page - or worse, the whole site goes down and I can't log into Wordpress at all.
I have various plugins that need updating at the moment and I can't do them because my whole site will crash. I even tried to delete a plugin this morning and got the error message at the top of my site.
If I go into my GoDaddy dashboard and do a back up for a previous day this fixes it sometimes, but othertimes it hasn't and I had to get a friend to go into the FTP and delete the plugins.
I really need to know what the problem is and how to avoid it though. Do I need to switch hosting companies? I have a basic plan right now, is it not capable of unzipping and doing the proper steps when a plugin is updated?
Please help if you can. Thanks!
Hi All. If anyone is having trouble installing plugins/themes or updating installed plugins, there's a few steps you can try.
If after trying these, you are still encountering errors, you may want to call Support so they can review your hosting plan and the specific errors you are receiving.
I have fixed my issue by including .htaccess file which was not there and rename web.config file. all run smoothly. Problem is in your customer service. I have struggled with them, because their only sentence was "Plesk is not support for wordpress", Lol what a technical answer!!!
do you still fine problem if update directly from word press admin panel?
Can you please provide specific instructions to resolve this issue? Thank you.
Do you have the solution that so many are desperately waiting for?
I had the same issue (by using the default install from WP). I fixed it by uploading the plugins manually.
@chaz1819 wrote:
I have a wordpress site up and running but have been unable to install any plugins or install a new theme.
When I try installing themes I always get update failed and
When I try installing a plugin it fails with this message - Installation failed: 500 Internal Server Error <!--[if lte IE 6]><![endif]--> Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Hope I'm just missing something simple and easy to fix - thanks in advance for any help 🙂
I had the same issue when I used the default install from WP. I managed to upload and enable them just fine when I chose to upload them manually.
I too am having the same issue with the 500 server error, in addition to "update failed." I tried manually and was getting the same issue. However, I somehow managed to install one plugin successfully. Seems to me that the developers at GoDaddy have some work to do but it doesn't seem like anyone is going to do it. That is the impression I'm getting. I've noticed in the comments that the tone sounds a lot like "it's the user's mistake" and they just flat out refuse to escalate issues. I'll go through the chain of command if I have to.
I have exact same problem!!!!
For me it doesn't work anything. I tried reinstaling everything. Same error over and over. Cant do anything on my sites. PLease help!
On that htaccess file i cant find, i cant see it or find option to view invisible files...
i have installed wordpress perfectly and all the builtin themes working fine but when i try to install any new theme it displayed an internal server error
"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator to inform of the time the error occurred and of anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
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#Date: 2018-01-10 00:46:29
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Please help me
Just now I managed to install my custom theme on godaddy while searching for answers and not getting any satisfactory answer.
what I did is ->
1. go to File Manager
2. Go to wordpress installation folder (can be root folder of your site or subdomain. in my case it was -> www.example.com/wordpress
3. Go to wp-content
4. then go to themes
5. here upload you theme zip file
6. select the zip file (checkbox) and click on More -> extract files
7. Now you'll have your theme listed under wordpress themes in dashboard
I have been trying to install a plugin in my WordPress website in Godaddy, but from the manage site dashboard, there is no option for a plugin. I don't understand why this is so?
I also tried to add my website www.meetlancer.org, it is showing the website is not WordPress? But, I built a WordPress website in Godaddy.
Can someone explain and help me with this?
@Palinco I'm worried that buried inside of this thread your query will not be widely seen. My suggestion is that you start a new post in order to get greater visibility.
roy darling *my posts seem a lot shorter in my head
When I try and install plug-ins in my wordpress site I keep getting
Installation failed: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 500 - Internal server error. <!-- body{margin:0;font-size:.7em;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:#EEEEEE;} fieldset{padding:0 15px 10px 15px;} h1{font-size:2.4em;margin:0;color:#FFF;} h2{font-size:1.7em;margin:0;color:#CC0000;} h3{font-size:1.2em;margin:10px 0 0 0;color:#000000;} #header{width:96%;margin:0 0 0 0;padding:6px 2% 6px 2%;font-family:"trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;color:#FFF; background-color:#555555;} #content{margin:0 0 0 2%;position:relative;} .content-container{background:#FFF;width:96%;margin-top:8px;padding:10px;position:relative;} --> Server Error 500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.
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text: UK soul chanteuse and two-time Brit Award nominee Jessie Ware has released the video for her recent single "Say You Love Me," from her forthcoming sophomore album Tough Love, today. The video was directed by Tell No One, the London-based experimental film duo: Luke White and Remi Weekes. Tell No One's work has been screened at New York's Guggenheim Museum and the British Film Institute. "When I found out Tell No One were interested in directing 'Say You Love Me,' I was so confident they would deliver something visually beautiful and provocative," said Ware. "They are such talents and I have been a fan of their work for a while. It was an absolute pleasure to work with them on this. It was probably the most technically challenging thing I have worked on, but for them, it looked like a walk in the park. They have such confidence in what they do, it was inspiring to watch." See the moody music video, which features Ware brooding in front of what looks like the backdrop to a natural history museum, below.


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The sport of golf is in a league of its own. Golf requires players to use the least amount of swings to get their ball in the hole, creating a lower score. Golf requires great skill to play. If you would like to play golf, then read these tips.
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When your ball is in a fairway bunker, a good rule of thumb is to figure out what club you would normally hit at the distance you are away from the hole and then take two clubs more. The sand deadens your shot, and by taking more club than you would normally hit, you will end up on the green.
"Keep your eyes on the ball" is one of the most common pieces of golfing advice - with good reason! A well-orchestrated golf swing involves a lot of simultaneous motions; if you concentrate on individual movements you lose the coordination necessary for a great swing. Focusing your eyes and your attention on the ball allows you to make a natural swing concentrated on the proper target - launching the ball powerfully and accurately.
A helpful tip when it comes to golf is to make sure you have the proper supplies in your golf bag before heading out on the course for the day. Some items that you may find helpful are sunscreen, balls, tees, ball markers, a rain suit, gloves, snacks, water, and a rule book.
Consider and exercise plan in addition to lessons when you want to improve your golf game. Developing a plan will help you approach exercise with the knowledge that it will pay off on the green. There are many options in the world of exercise that will help your mind, body and game.
When putting, imagine that your putter is like the pendulum of a grandfather clock. It's like an extension of your body that moves free. Almost no force needs to be exerted in a putt. Simply lift the club to the desired distance on the pendulum swing and that let your arm muscles go. For every inch back that you lift your putter back, you will get a foot of distance from the golf ball.
To test your grip for the right firmness, shorten your thumb. Place your left hand on your club in its normal grip with the thumb pointing down. Now slide the thumb up approximately one centimeter. You should notice a tightening of the last two fingers on the hand. This is what your pressure should be to allow for a proper grip.
The way your golf game ends depends on your putting capabilities. Putting is one of the most difficult things to do correctly in golf. It is recommended that you go to the putting greens regularly just to practice your putting and nothing else. This will be very beneficial to you as you continue to play rounds of golf.
Rather than focusing all your energy on overcoming the problem, work around it instead. This will contribute to your developing a unique style that may be to your advantage.
Golf is a very popular game for business associates, as you will probably be taken out for a round if you are in the finance sector. If this happens, try to limit your competitive nature and try to have fun with the people that you work for. This will give you a chance to show your modesty to your boss.
Maintain a relaxed state as you address the ball. This is a common mistake among golfers, and it can greatly weaken your game. You need to remain loose, and you have to be ready and relaxed enough to hit your ball properly and with power. So relax your body and your swing will flourish.
When you first start playing golf, it's a good idea to rent your clubs rather than investing in your own set. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, you won't know what kind of clubs will work best for you until you have been playing a while. Second, golf clubs are expensive. If you decide you don't want to pursue the game, you will have invested a lot of money in clubs for no reason.
Furthermore, golf as a sport is in a league of its own. In order to play golf, players must try to get their ball in the hole with the least amount of swings, resulting in a lower score. Golf takes great skill to play and if you use the tips from this article, you can play golf skillfully.
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More then One Million Android Users Hacked - You too may be the one among them.
CheckPoint Security firm discovered a new Android malware named Gooligan.
It has already compromised more than a million Google Accounts.
Another malware called "Gooligan", is endangering Android users.
The Gooligan Android malware roots vulnerable Android devices to steal email addresses and authentication tokens stored on them.
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The compressed information is used by criminals to hack victims' Google account and access sensitive data from Google apps including Gmail, Google Photos, Google Docs, Google Play, Google Drive, and G Suite.
"Gooligan broke the security of over one million Google accounts. The number continues to increase by an addition of about 13,000 breached devices each day," reported CheckPoint.
"Our research exposes how the malware roots infected devices and steal authentication tokens that can be used to access data from Google Play, Gmail, Google Photos, Google Docs, G Suite, Google Drive, and more."
Experts from the security firm CheckPoint have discovered dozens of legitimate-looking Android apps containing the Gooligan malware. These mobile apps were available for the download on third-party stores, but experts also highlighted that the malware could be downloaded users directly by tapping malicious links embedded in malicious messages.
Google shared the statement about the issue & also stated that they are taking numerous steps including proactively notifying affected accounts, revoking affected tokens and deploying SafetyNet improvements to protect users from these apps in the future.
In the following sections, we provide more answers regarding the campaign.
Who is affected?
Gooligan probably affects devices on Android 4 (Jelly Bean, KitKat) and 5 (Lollipop), which is over 74% of in-market today. About 57% of these devices are located in Asia and about 9% are in Europe.
"The infection activates once the user downloads and installs a Gooligan-infected app on a vulnerable Android device, or by clicking on malicious links in phishing attack messages," the company said in a statement.


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Maximizing Conversion in Your Business through The Implementation of Live Chat (Part I)
In the past, we used to have sales people to advertise our products.Thanks to technology, we now have an internet connection that enables businesses to advertise their products digitally. Thus, the website is created and starts being an essential tool so that business owners will not lose out on great opportunities to market their business.
Now the question; is the website on it's own enough?
Business owners then try to enhance their business performance by adding a live chat. It saves time and potentially increases sales, but unfortunately it doesn't work right away. We have to admit that live chat presence is an amazing tool to communicate with customers. however it works only if it is done right.
If you are part of a business, decide why you want to implement live chat: Is it to have more leads, more consumers or more customer support? Then, follow our guide below and you're sure to get some great results.
Chat as A Conversion Optimizer
As we use the website as the first gate of our business, we expect the website to do a great thing. Nevertheless, statistical data shows that only 2% of the website's visitors convert their visits into sales.
This is where a live chat starts to work. Live chat is there to be the fix. According to Forrester Research, 44% of online consumers think that getting their questions answered while they are completing an online purchase is one of the most important features a website can offer.
With live chat, businesses do not need to worry since the consumers would figure their own way out by talking with the CS. Honestly, you can even have a poor website but still convert as long as you have live chat and use it the right way.
Live chat is convenient since potential consumers can ask any questions and develop better understanding about the product. As you see in this figure above, live chat is preferred since it has a quick response time. It is efficient and enables the customer to multi-task. To sum up; implementing live chat could generate four to eight times leads more than if you do not implement it.
However, adding live chat doesn't simply work for just any website. In fact, when your website is already doing well, live chat could reduce the conversion instead. The logic is actually simple. When you visit a website that is already giving you an answer without you having to ask the CS, the presence of a proactive live chat is disturbing and therefore unnecessary. Oftentimes, a simple 'add to cart' button is more than enough rather than proactive live chat. This is usually found to be the case in an e-commerce website where purchasing things is super easy and the product description is clear enough.
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1. Take A Data-Driven Approach
Before you end up deciding whether you want to implement live chat or not, we have to admit that each site needs different implementation. Hence, capturing leads from the conversations is necessary and is the most practical way.
– Don't implement chat when your website has a 5% or bigger conversion rate.
– Either way, if your website has a 2-5% conversion rate, look for some data.
– Use chat when your conversion rate is below 2%.
Also read: "Maximizing Conversion in Your Business through The Implementation of Live Chat (Part II)"
We need to take a data-driven approach to our sites. Here is a list you can use to decide if you need it:
- Find out the list of the pages on your sites which attract a lot of prospective customers.
- For each page you've found, get the conversion rate and separate them into business hours and after hours sales.
- Find the average time to sign up or fill in an inquiry for each page.
Use Google Analytics, Kissmetrics or specialized apps such as Formisimo to get the information above.
2. Get to Know about Your Customer First
So that we don't waste our time, here is the list concerning your customer type:
Q: Which countries do your best customers come from? And which countries do the waster time-types come from?
A: Use Chartmogul to obtain this data.
Q: Which pages are both your best consumers and the time-wasters likely to visit?
A: Take a look at the leads gained via each platform and look at the page where the chat begins.
Q: Which page on your site has login/support/area access where visitors can log in?
Reason for the question: You do not want to irritate your existing customers with your resources.


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Get the details about the MDMK candidate in Pudukkotta, CPI candidate in Pudukkotta, Marxist candidate in Pudukkotta, Pudukkottai constituency election 2012 updates. Below you can find the information about upcoming Pudukkottai election.
MDMK candidate in Pudukkottai election 2012
MDMK party leader Vaiko announced that they will not compete in this Pudukkottai election. Vaiko says that peoples where attracted by money given by AIADMK party. During the Sankarankovil election such activities were happened. He stated that they have caught some people and provided to election commission but no action was taken. So this time they were not going to compete in Pudukottai election.
CPI candidate in Pudukkottai election 2012
Marxist party leader G.Ramakrishnan says that they will compete this pudukkottai constituency election. Already this party leader announced that they are going to support INC party instead of competing in this constituency. But this party leader now decided to announce their own candidate on May 11. Stay tuned with Tamilspider to know the Pudukkottai constituency CPI candidate.
So now the parties DMK, PMK and MDMK will boycott Pudukkottai by-poll election 2012.


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Eric Clapton Documentary Will Hopefully Cover Drugs, Sex, and more Drugs!by Gumbercules9000 on Feb 3rd, 2017
Hi everyone, Bryan here….
If there ever was a guitar player besides Jimi Hendrix that should get his own documentary, it should be Eric Clapton. This guy not only produced and created some of the best mix of blues and rock songs, but he did enough cocaine, heroine, and alcohol that would have killed everyone in Bangkok overnight. And those people know how to party with the lady-boys. The documentary is called 'Eric Clapton: A Life in 12 Bars' and will be directed by Lili Fini Zanuck, which sounds like a fake name.
Zanuck is a producer, but is trying her hand at directing. She did produce 'Driving Miss Daisy' and 'Cocoon' though, along with the dragon film 'Reign of Fire', so she's got that going in to Eric Clapton's life story. Not only will the documentary discuss the musical side of Clapton, but will also tackle his personal life, which might be better than his music and is said to the "emotional spine of the film" by Zanuck. The death of his son, traumatic childhood, and eventual happiness will be covered.
If this documentary doesn't play out like a musical version of 'Wolf of Wall Street' then I'm not interested, because Clapton and Jordan Belfort were in fact the same person back in the day, doing the same amount of drugs it would take to kill a T-Rex along with fucking anything that moved.
"Clapton's music is the foundation of our film. His commitment to the blues, its traditions and originators, is absolute from his earliest days," said Zanuck, who previously directed 1991 crime drama "Rush." "He was also forever restless in his search of a suitable vehicle to shape and grow his artistic voice, often bewildering fans and the media with sudden changes in musical direction, bands, songs, guitar style, tone and physical appearance."
"It is indeed a melancholic victory lap, full of nostalgic myth, but always musically potent, always looking to the future," Zanuck said. "Despite the fact that his path is strewn with tragedies, addiction and loss, he never fails to regain his bearings and continue to serve what he holds dearest: his music."
Producer John Battsek said: "We have unique access to Clapton's extensive personal archive of classic performance clips, on- and off-stage footage, iconic photos, concert posters, handwritten letters, drawings and personal diary entries — elements with the power to transport audiences to each era, from obsessive student, to peer, to transcendent figure in musical history and one of the greatest guitarists of all time."
I get it. We all want a personal redemption story. It's been done too much. Focus on the drugs, alcohol, and whores with Clapton's soundtrack and him mumbling about how good it was to shag the Queen and you'll have Oscar gold, or at least another Grammy.


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DPVA Category Archives
Why The Media Tried (And Failed) To Protect Senator Don McEachin
25 August 2015 | DPVA, Virginia Senate | 6 Comments
So the Times-Dispatch has finally decided to run the story on Tommy Norment trolling for mistresses on Ashley Madison now that the protective cover that they were giving to Senator Donald McEachin couldn't be maintained any longer. It was amazing how the "mainstream" press and the liberal blogs were ignoring that serial womanizer Norment showed up in […]
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Ernest Powell: Did Ashley Madison Lead To Federal Campaign Finance Violations?
25 August 2015 | DPVA, Virginia Politics, Crime, Virginia Senate | 2 Comments
Ernest W. Powell is a Democrat running for the Virginia Senate in the 11th District. I found his name in the Ashley Madison database dump as I was looking up candidates and elected officials in the Richmond area today, and what surprised me more was the email address listed on the transaction record for his […]
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Meet Norm Mosher
6 September 2014 | DPVA, Virginia Politics, US Congress | 2 Comments
Elections often provide a source of amusement for us, and the circus surrounding the Senate candidacy of Montana legislator Amanda Curtis is certainly among those. A Democrat candidate spewing Marxist dogma, given to praising Communist Party icons and all-around wingnut never seems to exhaust our capacity to revel in political mirth. But what if I were to […]
YouTube Covers For Democratic Super PAC
22 May 2013 | DPVA, National Politics, Crime | 2 Comments
Yesterday morning I submitted a copyright infringement complain to YouTube complaining that the Super PAC "American Bridge 21st Century" had stolen clips from two of my productions. Twenty four hours later, which is quite a bit more of a delay than I had ever encountered before, the infringing video has been re-edited to remove […]
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The Liberals Steal My Stuff And Somehow Think I'm Going To Ignore It
21 May 2013 | DPVA, Crime | 4 Comments
It's nice to see that Democrats appreciate the quality of my work. It isn't quite so nice to see Democrat campaign consultants blatantly stealing my work so they can make a buck, but it's hardly surprising that they do.
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Ralph Northam Campaigns For Infanticide
29 March 2013 | DPVA, National Politics, Virginia Politics | 2 Comments
The Florida legislature is now considering a bill that protects the lives of babies born alive in abortion clinics, which sometimes happens as the result of a botched abortion. Planned Parenthood came out to argue against the bill, and in this stunning video their lobbyist Alisa Laport Snow was asked some rather important questions […]
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Let's Talk About Voter Fraud
24 October 2012 | Arlington County, DPVA, Fairfax County, US Congress | 7 Comments
As NLS puts it, this is totally unacceptable.
The Moran clan have been embarrassing Virginians with their out of control behavior for far too long. It's well past time the whole bunch was retired from politics.
UPDATE: And this happens on a day when Jim Moran decries, of all things, voter fraud. Go figure.
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Babur Lateef Under Criminal Investigation
19 July 2011 | DPVA, Prince William County | 13 Comments
According to Riley over at Virtucon, sources are saying a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate charges of wire fraud and bank fraud. Just imagine, the darling of PWC dems whose candidacy was so celebrated by the Moonhowlings/moonbat crowd may soon be under indictment for his mortgage default scheme. This might be the first time […]
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Lies, Damned Lies, and "Messaging"
16 July 2011 | DPVA | 1 Comment
I am really enjoying the reports from "DemRulz" coming out of the DPVA summit held this weekend. If these are the little notes being made public about the presentations by leaders within the Democratic Party of Virginia, I can only imagine what the stuff is they're choosing not to make public.
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A Tea Party Democrat In Fairfax
14 July 2011 | DPVA, Fairfax County, Virginia House | 5 Comments
More details are emerging about the political pedigree of Democrat Eric Clingan, who is running against Jim LeMunyon in the 67th House District, and Democrats are utterly aghast. For some unfathomable reason Brian Moran has managed to recruit the former head of the Arizona State College Republicans to run as a Democrat in Northern Virginia. […]
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The UnDemocrats
23 April 2011 | DPVA | 5 Comments
If my often expressed concerns about the autocratic "leadership" of the Democratic Party aren't enough to convince people that there aren't major issues these folks need to address, here's the perspective of a long-time Democrat activist talking once again about the scorched-earth tactics of the DPVA going on right now:
Ben Tribbett, a longtime Democratic activist, […]
Yeah, Go With That You Moonbats
6 November 2010 | DPVA, Virginia Politics | 17 Comments
If you want to peer into the twisted psyche of today's moonbat reeling in reaction to the midterm elections, grab plenty of duct tape and head on over to "Blue Virginia." There you can find out how they believe their political future relies upon fostering a Communist revolution to sweep away free markets, replace them […]
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Amundson Throws In The Towel
24 June 2009 | DPVA, Fairfax County | 6 Comments
The DPVA is now officially falling apart. House Homosexual Caucus leader Delegate Kris Amundson, who has been in office for nearly twenty years and a potential contender for House Majority Leader if the Democrats took over the Virginia House of Delegates this election has announced that she will not seek re-election in the 44th District. […]
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Your Tax Dollars At Work
24 June 2009 | RPV, DPVA, Virginia Politics | 10 Comments
RPV Chairman Pat Mullin's look into what Governor Kaine has been doing as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee has already resulted in Virginians learning some rather interesting things about their part-time Governor. One of the more fascinating tidbits has been that when Kaine is jetting across the country to headline partisan events in swanky […]
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Dem Primary Open Thread
9 June 2009 | DPVA, Virginia Politics | 13 Comments
Virginia Democrats chose Creigh Deeds as their nominee for Governor as a result of strong support in Northern Virginia, proving that the vote of the Washington Post editorial board is perhaps the most important one in Democratic Party Primaries. I'm glad to see McAuliffe sent packing, showing Democrats are capable of making at least some […]
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DPVA Goes To War With Their Bloggers
20 June 2008 | DPVA, Blogs | 4 Comments
The rule being applied to bloggers by the Democratic Party of Virginia increasingly appears to be "thou shalt not disagree with us", in the latest example of how the Democratic Party is anything but democratic. The two blogging powerhouses of the left in Virginia, NLS and Raising Kaine, are being excluded from the Democratic National […]
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Let Every Vote Count? For DPVA, Not So Much
16 June 2008 | DPVA | 11 Comments
Well, the "count every vote" mantra of Democrats doesn't seem to be working out for them so well, given what appears to be some rather unusual behavior at this weekends DPVA Convention as reported by Washington Post's Virginia Politics Blog. Vote results getting announced before the vote counting is completed? Maybe we ought to be […]
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The Radical Agenda Within The Democratic Party
22 March 2008 | DPVA, National Politics | 38 Comments
This is what some Democrats have to say about their prospective presidential nominee: (H/T NLS)
Meanwhile, the same radical influence that underpins the support for Barack Obama is precisely the radical influence being resurrected in Virginia politics in support of Dick Saslaw's agenda to protect illegal aliens from the consequences of their […]
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Democrats Start Aiming Loaded Weapons At Their Feet
26 February 2008 | DPVA, Crime | 21 Comments
I know plenty of Democrats that want to ensure that law enforcement has the tools they need in order to protect us from criminals, just as I know plenty of Democrats who think it's an outrage that illegal aliens and those who unlawfully hire them are actively protected from facing the consequences of their unlawful […]
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Democrats Start Infighting
5 February 2008 | DPVA, Illegal Aliens, Virginia House | 14 Comments
The DPVA better figure out what the heck it stands for before it again starts lashing out at it's own members for being "mean spirited", otherwise some of us out here might end up getting confused about whether Democrats are interested in protecting the interests of low income minorities, or illegal aliens:
Today, [HB 14] passed […]
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An article on the future of e-government from the US proclaims that Web 2.0 will "transform service delivery, make smarter policies, flatten silos and, most importantly, reinvigorate democracy" and facilitate a shift "from monolithic government agencies to pluralistic, networked governance Webs that fuse the knowledge, skills and resources of the masses."
There are undoubtably great examples of e-government working meaningfully to empower citizens (and even non citizens). Two diverse examples are the British Government e-petition service and the US Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) blog, Evolution of Security. The British Government's e-petition service statistics are interesting:
- Over 29,000 petitions have been submitted, of which over 8,500 are currently live and available for signing, over 6,000 have finished and 14,601 have been rejected outright.
- There have been over 5.8 million signatures, originating from over 3.9 million different email addresses.
In Sri Lanka however, e-gov remains just a great idea.
The only e-gov website I've personally used is that of the Department of Immigration and Emigration to renew my passport. Of the others, the less said the better. The Government of Sri Lanka Official Web Portal is a rather sad affair. The standard of English across the site is atrocious – but I'll let that pass (try reading their "Descliamer" (sic)). E-Gov in Sri Lanka should after all be tailored first to the needs of those who speak Sinhala and Tamil. But tellingly, the site is only available in Sinhala and English – so much for constitutionally guaranteed language rights!
Worse, the site is replete with bad links and erroneous information. Try for example clicking on Disasters and Emergencies. . The NGO link has a hilarious misspelling (or maybe it was deliberate). The Health and Nutrition section has a link to yet another portal (a portal linking to a portal – and I thought e-gov was about efficiency?) which does not work. And just check out the link to Traditional Medicines of Sri Lanka (even though there actually is a Department of Ayurveda that the portal is blissfully unaware of). The list goes on. Sadly, the most useful website of them all – that of the Government Information Centre – is hidden behind a button called GIC – 1919, which makes sense only after you know what 1919 and GIC stands for. You know there's something seriously wrong with e-gov when the humanitarian section of official website of the President of Sri Lanka has only a single mention of a human (though one wonders whether the person mentioned also fell into the animal welfare directives of the Mahinda Chintana).
In sum, e-gov in Sri Lanka is a mirror image of government – it simply does not work as it should. The problem here is one that Anthony Williams points to as well. "Single-window services constitute one-way information flows to the citizen. In today's social-media environment, these one-way conversations fail to build credibility and trust in government. More importantly, they fail to harness the knowledge, skills and resources that could be tapped by government by using a more collaborative approach to service delivery and policy-making."
The question then arises as to whether governments are really interested in this kind of two-way conversation with its citizens or indeed have the capacity (human, technical and financial) to moderate and fuel such discussions all the official languages of a country. Sri Lanka's regime certainly isn't. There's simply no political will to create, to sustain and act upon any information that embarrass the incumbent regime. Forget about "G-Webs" as Anthony calls them – in Sri Lanka e-gov will only ever be a one way, top down, static website driven monologue. It's always about "delivery" but never about feedback, participatory decision making, transparency or accountability – never mind what ICTA and the World Bank would have us believe.
Why for example is it that the monumental corruption in government as brought out by the COPE Reports fail to register on the Official Website of the Government of Sri Lanka? Try searching for "Cope Reports" and the answer is revealing. (Confusingly, Official Website of the Government of Sri Lanka is not the same as the Government of Sri Lanka Official Web Portal – so much for non-duplication of services).
I guess over 2 billion rupees lost to corruption in Government is really outside the remit of e-gov, save for the website of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption (which also does not operate in Tamil). Mind you, this is the same government that then has the gall to accuse of NGOs of non-transparency and financial mismanagement.
From the non-functional and dysfunctional to the blatantly racist, Sri Lanka's so called e-gov framework is a mess that does not in any way hold government more responsive, accountable and transparent to citizens.
While I agree, what's missing here is an emphasis on governance and how ICTs can help strengthen it in contra-distinction to e-government. Citizens can now use a range of methods – from mobile phones to digital cameras – to document the litany of grievances with regards to illiberal governance. From capturing the many aspects of corruption to the lackadaisical attitudes of local government authorities that for example result in garbage that's uncollected for days on end, ICTs allow civil society hold government and non-governmental bodies accountable even when they are themselves unable and unwilling to do so.
Key ideas in this regard could be:
- Tie ups with mobile telecoms companies can leverage geo-location based cell broadcasting to deliver a range of timely information to citizens, from details of utility breakdowns to disaster early warning and security alerts. (Typically though, the Sri Lankan regime's sheer ineptitude commanded the closure of mobile communications channels even when it had earlier promised to leverage them in the interests of public security).
- Run competitions to get civil society animated about the potential to use mobile phones and mobile devices to secure their rights and also, in the rare instance, to commend public officials for their work. The problem in Sri Lanka is that you have more voters than citizens – those who are aware of and will fight for their rights are few.
- Support citizen journalism (CJ) initiatives. Groundviews, Vikalpa, VOR Radio and Vikalpa Video demonstrate through technology and content a bit of what's really possible by getting citizens to record what they experience. The current reach and readership of Groundviews (disclosure – I edit the site) is particularly revealing of the thirst for alternative news and information that critiques the status quo. Traditional media in Sri Lanka is picking up on the potential of citizen journalists. Key media rights organisations and trade unions in Sri Lanka have already recognised bloggers as journalists. These in effect are the G-Webs that Anthony refers to in his interview, but are far more likely to strengthen governance than any e-gov initiative in Sri Lanka.
- Support mobile government (m-government). Sri Lankans already own and use more mobiles than PC. As Lirneasia's pathbreaking research suggests, mobiles are used and owned by those who will never buy a PC. M-government will not replace e-government, but will complement it by providing services through SMS and voice telephony (free calls to government call centres like GIC and automated services). Countries like Dubai have already gone ahead and developed mobile governance portals, so why not, as this researcher from Lirneasia suggests, leverage mobile phones for governance in Sri Lanka?
- Public private partnerships. The only way you are going to get citizens to use these services is to partner with the private sector and support local business development and entrepreneurship. Easyseva is a new and interesting model in this regard that puts the government's utterly unsustainable and crumbling cyber-cafe plans to shame.
- Leverage Web 2.0 technologies – All citizens don't need to use PC or mobiles to benefit from stronger governance mechanisms, but the few who do can be serviced much better by leveraging Web 2.0 technologies. Anthony points to a few examples that work in the US and could possible be adapted for Sri Lanka provided they are accessible via mobile devices and in the vernacular. All of e-gov is not about direct interactions with citizens, but about making government itself more efficient. A plethora of Web 2.0 technologies that help coordination and collaboration can be leveraged, alongside mobile device based information generation and delivery, to support a more efficient government. On the other hand, some of these layers of information generated within government primarily for its own consumption can easily be exported to programmes like Google Earth for little or no cost, enabling citizens to access and annotate information.
The elephant in the room however is the political will necessary to support and act upon information generated by these mechanisms. Governments, not NGOs, are primarily responsible for the well-being of citizens. As Anthony notes, "It's about political will and a willingness to be open and to incorporate feedback and put it into practice. At the same time, digital communications make geography less relevant and reinforce the need to open up the policy-making process to global participation. Governments that choose not to open up or those that fail to foster active participation in governance will eventually lose legitimacy and authority."
Has e-gov in Sri Lanka made government or governance better? Is it not the case that most of the strategies employed by ICTA for e-gov are doomed to failure, even if no one in it, for obvious reasons can or will acknowledge it? Can e-gov mechanisms really succeed or stand any chance of success when you have thugs in government running amok, a culture of impunity, the breakdown in the rule of law and massive levels of corruption with absolutely nothing citizens can do through current e-gov mechanisms to address these issues?
More effective, meaningful and sustainable solutions to our growing democratic deficit lie in exploring ways through which ICTs, including mobile phones, can help empower citizen centric governance mechanisms. It's possibly the case that government and governmental agencies will be deeply suspicious of or even actively hostile to such measures. But as Anthony succinctly notes, "Governments can either be active participants in this process or unwilling bystanders."
Watch this space.
UPDATED – 14th April 2008
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) confirms that South Asia remains far below the world average and is the lowest ranking region in Asia when it comes to e-government. Sri Lanka in fact has slipped in the UN DESA e-gov rankings, from 94 in 2005 to 101 in 2008 amongst the countries surveyed.
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Not only do I sometimes ignore my children, instead of feeling guilty about it, I'm getting better at it. Gasp, I'm a horrible mother, I know I read minds too, just kidding. But, I'm fairly certain that's what some of you are all thinking. Before you get your undies in a bundle, let me elaborate. I don't ignore my children by leaving them in hot vehicles (and if you do, please stop), I ignore (usually relative to my 2-year-old) his never-ending stalking, whining, crying and hanging on me to put my attention into
something anything else. In fact, sometimes I even stalk over to the computer, get on any website (yes sometimes it is Facebook other times the newspaper) just to be doing something so that he sees I am busy and busy with something he can't help me with and therefore I won't be busy placating him. It's sort of very anti-attachment parenting of me, which I generally try to follow, but as Brecken gets older, I think his needs and mine are changing.
So why do I ignore my child? Because if I don't he will drop down drag himself around the house attached to my ankles, leg(s), hanging on my shirt tales generally all while crying and whining and making obnoxious noises for no intelligible reason. Generally he can't even tell me what he wants and not because he doesn't have the vocabulary to do so. He is very verbal and can effectively communicate all the essential needs like I'm hungry, tired, poopy, need to potty and so on and so forth. When left to his own devices though, magically more often than not all this screaming and crying ceases and he wanders off to PLAY by himself in his playroom or somewhere else in the house. He may pop up in ten minutes or a half hour with a "boat" built out of duplos or a book that he asks to be read, but he is no longer screaming and whining and crying when he does so and I am generally happy to appease him. That's not to say that during this quiet playtime I don't get all super secret agent spy like and stealthy pop my head in the playroom undetected to make sure he's okay and contentedly playing by himself, but otherwise I don't interfere unless he comes to me with some creation he's cooked, Duplo masterpiece to show off or book to be read. So you might call it ignoring but I like to think of it as letting his imagination thrive. Maybe that's just what I say to make me feel better about it but I really think it's better for both of us than him laying on the ground holding onto my ankles screaming bloody murder. Not that I'm not neurotic, to the point I may or may not have run a google search before admitting this little secret to the world to make sure I wasn't causing major psychological harm by employing this glorious yes I just said glorious technique. Interestingly, the results of that google search, that I may or may not have run, indicate that I'm not the only one!
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Josh got a job and I started an intensive teacher training course, so the last couple of weeks have been insanely busy. We're very early to bed, early to rise these days--and sometimes late to bed, early to rise. Luckily that didn't keep us from running off and making our first anniversary a memorable one. It's traditional to give paper, but black water rafting seemed like a more exciting alternative. Plus, we got to wear these awesome outfits.
It turns out the company we booked through had one of the less intense excursions, so it was a nice, easy intro to cave exploration. I learned to abseil and I didn't die! Sitting in the dark with glowworms felt like sticking your head straight up into space to hang out with the stars. Except, you know, underground. Rafting was so much fun! Surprisingly, the only scary part was climbing back up the cliff to get out of the cave system--about midway up I wasn't sure where to find the next hold and hung there, frozen on the cliff face, imagining all the dramatic ways I might have to be rescued. Then I reached a moment in my panic when the only thing worse than moving became staying put, and I forced my way up. Naturally, Josh took the climb like a champion, didn't hesitate for a second, and popped his head over the edge in like, 3 minutes. We all have our talents.
Now that we're experienced spelunkers, we can't wait to try the Black Abyss next! I hear you have to jump down a small waterfall, which sounds mildly terrifying.
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We had no idea how tired we were until we stopped moving and exhaustion whacked us over the head. We were so grateful to have a shower and a bed nearby. Even better because what we rolled up to turned out to be the most beautiful hotel; it was like stepping straight into a glamorous 1920s evening for which (being covered in mud) we were seriously under dressed. Thankfully this is New Zealand, where at its heart, fancy is just a plug-in fountain and some extra forks next to your napkin with a cartoon trout on it. A middle aged saloon girl, some cowboys, and a unicorn passed by us during dinner. We followed them into a costume party where there was blaring music, but only three people holding down a pretty bare dance floor. It was charmingly lame. (Is that a thing? Well, we loved it.) We crashed for a few songs and the party just accepted us.
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The Hate Process
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In July, after Israel had expelled four Hamas officials from Jerusalem, it was claimed this was a "prelude to the forced expulsion of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, whose aim is to change the geographical and demographic situation in the holy city." The speaker of those words, quoted in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, was Abbas.
Anyone for peace?
And among several examples in the report of Der Stürmer-type graphics, here, for example, from PA TV on July 1 this year, is a Jew eating the Al-Aqsa Mosque's adjacent shrine in Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock:
And here, from PA TV on July 4, are Jewish snakes making sure no one can climb up ladders of peace:
And how do you become an exalted figure in the PA? By being a terrorist -- best of all, a dead one -- who murdered as many Israelis as possible.
For instance, on July 3, Mohammad Daoud Oudeh (Abu Daoud), engineer of the Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972, breathed his last. Fatah, Abbas's ruling party, reacted by opening an official mourners' tent and declaring: "He will always remain our ideal and a role model for the generations to come." Al-Hayat Al-Jadida proclaimed that "his name shone brightly in … Munich in 1972."
And Abbas himself went so far as to telephone Abu Daoud's family and "noted [his] life filled with struggle, his devoted effort."
But accolades aren't all. PMW also lists eight cases in July and August alone of PA summer camps and sports tournaments being named after terrorists. In two cases the terrorist was Dalal Mughrabi. She led the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre -- the worst terror attack in Israel's history, taking 37 lives including 12 children.
On April 8 of this year, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said, "We also strongly condemn the [PA's] glorification of terrorists. Honoring terrorists … by official statements or by the dedication of public places … must end."
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Now that so many pro-Israel Republicans have been voted in, is there light at the end of the tunnel? No one knows what will happen in 2012, but one can only hope so.
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