Posted on 04/18/2006 5:06:47 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
First Bev Harris, then the AndyScam, and now DUmmie benburch is just $10 away from having Internet Radio as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Radiopower.org destroyed by a lightning strike!!!!" According to benburch, a lightening bolt destroyed the entire computer system servicing his Leftwing radio "empire." Thus benburch now has his hand out to the DUmmies to the tune of $5000 and the results are HILARIOUS. Because they have already been scammed before, the DUmmies have grown wary of such pleadings for money. The lightening strike story does sound mighty fishy. OTOH, maybe God is a vicious rightwinger who decided to put an end to benburch's loony left radio "network." I have noticed lately that there are a LOT of strange doings in the Leftist radio world. Err America Phoenix resurrects itself temporarily with a pixel bake sale. Then Blowhard Ed Schultz ATTACKS that station for not following his business pattern of scamming money by shaking down the Democrat Party directly for el dinero. And now we have benburch coming up with a lightening strike story to scam 5000 bucks. (For a REAL radio story, check out John Gibson's radio show at 8:30 PM EDT today when he interviews Leftwing Looney Blogger Maryscott O'Connor whom you can see pictured above.) So now let us watch DUmmie stick his hand out in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, informing benburch that he is just $10 away from becoming sane, is in the [brackets]:
Radiopower.org destroyed by a lightning strike!!!!
[Perhaps SOMEBODY up there is telling you something.]
I just received the following note from Shelby. Please pass this on to any radiopower listeners you may know!
[Please pass along benburch's inevitable plea for $$$.]
My building was struck by lightning during a storm that suddenly rolled in around 10 pm last night. It was a pretty freaky experience. I could actually hear and feel the pulsing of electricity. It wiped out computers, servers, 10 drives, archive files, mixer consols, and started a small electrical fire. I'm in the process of determining what's lost and what can be saved. I've managed to take apart a server and 3 fried desktop computers and use the parts to get the RadioPower main server back online. The station will limp along like this for the next few weeks (or as long as it can) but without emergency fundraiser of $5000 minimum that won't last very long.
Direct all donors to www.RadioPower.org/donations
I'm still in a state of shock and trying to get my bearings. If you need to contact me please use this address until further notice.
Thanks for your patience,
Shelby LaPre
RadioPower.org
[Shelby LaPre? Any relation to Don Lapre? Yeah, with a family name like that, I'm sure going to be comfortable handing money over to you.]
Oh my goodness. I'm one of those radiopower users. How horrible... I wish I could raise the whole bit myself and hand off a giant check... but I will kick this message so that others can see it.
[Oh my goodness. I wish I could be suckered out of my money but since I'm broke I will kick this message so that others can be scammed.]
Unbelievable! Does this crap ever end? The Royal Checkbook grows increasingly thin...
[And this DUmmie wins a Kewpie Doll for having a brief moment of mental clarity!]
BTW, folks, this was in spite of UPS systems! Shelby is no fool. But no UPS or surge protector can save you from a direct hit.
[How about if you merely UNPLUG your power from the wall? If you know of or hear a lightening storm approaching that is SOP.]
No, but proper lightning rods on his building would have I know a lot of people don't think about it, but almost any building can be hit by lightning, even small buildings surrounded by larger ones.
[Simplest solution is to UNPLUG the power. All this DUmmie did was UNPLUG his brain from rational thought.]
I've worked testing building entry protectors for phone lines and etc, and there is a limit to how much energy you can carry to ground with a Cook Electric type gas tube or with any semiconductor SCR or MOV. Those things can protect you from NEARBY lightning strikes, but never from a direct hit. The fact that this caused a fire in her residence tells me that the building was struck, or the power pole right outside the building was struck. As I know she lives in an older building, likely the copper ground rod is no longer very good. Perhaps enough to look grounded to a ground testing device, but not enough to carry off significant energy. All-in-all it is a tragic thing that happened to her, and I hope people will help her get on her feet. She has been doing streaming Liberal radio for even longer than I have.
[Shelby lives in an older building with lousy wiring and she is TOO STUPID to merely UNPLUG the power? It's not like you don't have advance warning of a lightning storm since you can hear it in the distance. As a result, your mighty liberal internet radio empire has been fried by a lightening bolt (making the mighty HUGE assumption that you aren't lying about all this).]
Strange, if this had happened to a Republican broadcaster, she (sorry for the gender error) would have been FLOODED with compensatory funds in order to keep that message going out. Liberals are constantly on a shoestring budget, depending on volunteer efforts, grassroots support and the occasional large doantion (Where the hell is George Soros when you need him?) That's the difference between liberal and conservative media machines. One is funded and the other barely survives.
[Yes. Karl Rove and Richard Mellon Scaife would have shown up the next morning with bags of cash to buy an entirely new computer system that was destroyed because the broadcaster was too stupid to UNPLUG the power when the lightning storm was approaching.]
We do "Bake Sale Radio" here on the left. But you know, the people who help us do it are all saints. We don't need Richard Mellon-Scaife, we have y'all.
[Richard Mellon Scaife wouldn't buy your suspicous lightning bolt fairy tale.]
Seems you should find out for sure before you ask for donations. Don't mean to seem callous, but does seem like the proper course of events. I for one would be quite put out if I found I was double funding a recovery effort.
[Find out for sure if Shelby LaPre is really playing the horses. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if she lost a bundle on a horse named Lightning Bolt and now needs $5000 to pay off her bookie.]
Just checked, and nope. No insurance. But then she would never have sent me that note asking for help if there had been any.
[Just checked, and nope. No brains.]
Shelby asked me to clarify; It's not destroyed: Just very f*cked up!
[Shelby asked me to clarify; It's not destroyed. Just a messed up extension cord so we will definitely be needing $5000 to replace it.]
If you have renter insurance or homeowners you can have your equipment replaced. Sorry for your loss.
[Sorry for your stupidity.]
Not my loss. Shelby's loss. And an uninsured loss, sadly. Basically, if you like radiopower, she needs your help. Without that, I doubt she will be able to keep it going much longer.
[The loss of the mighty Liberal streaming internet radio. The end of an era that nobody remembered in the first place.]
I'm listenig to them right now. Myabe they fixed it.
[The extension cord has been replaced already?]
No... She's cobbled together enough half-working stuff to get a signal out. But it's unlikely she can keep that up for long given the state of what she has left.
[Let's see. A lightening bolt supposedly fried your streaming radio equipment yet somehow technological genius Shelby managed to cobble it together in record speed? Is that your story or just rotten fish that I am now smelling?]
Well, I got billion joules from that lightning strike. Fried everything.
[DUmmie benburch would be satisfied with just a few jewels worth $5000.]
"IT'S NOT NICE TO MESS WITH REPUBLICANS"
Maybe now they will understand that their voice IS NOT to be heard, but buried....
Indeed! He got the ZOT!
The DUmmie lament. Nobody wants to pay money (read advertizers) to hear our crap, so we have to beg pennies from the 'enlightened' to broadcast it.
Conservative radio is successful because the advertizers make money off of it. It is fueled and funded because of the conservatives who make up the huge audiences, while the leftwingnut shows slowly die on the vine while begging for 'donations'. If their message was appealing, the audience would grow and advertizers would support them. Simple business facts.
Benburch and this woman are perfect examples. They archive leftwing crapola rants from unknown wingnuts on obscure, underpowered stations and stream it over the net to no one. It's just a movement of electrons lost in space with zero meaning or audience.
I wish I had that spare $10 of mad money to contribute, but I'll just kick you while you're down.
I live on a mountain that the locals call "lightning knob" because of the number of strikes it takes. For some odd reason, despite surge protectors and various precautions, fax machines are particularly vulnerable to lightning strikes.
I've lost three fax machines, and finally gave up having one on premises. Fortunately, none of the computers or peripherals have suffered any damage. Go figure....
P.S. I have an early primary for Congress in the 11th District of North Carolina, 2 May, less than a month away. visit my website in the tagline, and help however you can.
Congressman Billybob
Yeah. I plan on using that pic a lot of Maryscott O'Crazed with the kitchen knife. She must have gotten upset by that image of Li'l Beaver on her computer screen.
I would vote if I could but at the very least I'll fix the Diebold machines there in your favor.
Whatever happened to the smoking beaver?
Boy you could have at least asked mommie for a $10 advance on your allowance.
Look carefully at the pic above and you will see him.
Into the Top 40 like Casey Kaem on Qualudes!
Pitt snogs musk ox!
I have to say that I have seldom unplugged things, and I live in a frequent thunderstorm area. I do turn off everything electronic, and it's all plugged into UPS and surge protectors.
In thirty years of doing this, I've had one surge protector fried to ashes, and no damage to any electronic devices.
It may be a good policy, but I don't know of anyone who unplugs.
I unplug. What's the big deal? It gives me a level of comfort when a storm strikes. About 10 days ago a HUGE thuderstorm hit. Lots of lightning (even hail). However, I had the comfort of knowing that back at home, my computer was unplugged.
According to benburch, a lightening bolt destroyed the entire computer system servicing his Leftwing radio "empire."
Actually, I'm sure that the public library where his computer "empire" is headquartered, will probably get new PCs soon. Won't hurt him to get out in the natural sunlight for a little while either...
"Benburch said that Radiopower was back up again after the strike,
but look at what comes up now when I go to the site!
I .... I just can't take this anymore -- I CAN'T!!"
BTW, speaking of internet radio, I believe we can listen to the John Gibson interview with this Moonbat tonight via online streaming radio.
I'd be willing to send $10 to get Charles to post. His taglines are always a bolt from the blue.
If $10 could buy me 10 hours, then I'd be doing a full-blown DUFU right now. But money can't buy me time. Too much to do today. And then conferences the rest of the week.
One other thing: Peej, aren't you being a little hard on the Beaver? I mean, putting him with the crazy woman with the knife and the blood? Personally, I thought it was just as FUnnie the way mikrofon did it last night:
A DUmmie moonbat getting all worked up when she stumbles across the DUFUs! Now if you guys can just put the Beav on the LARGE version of the pic, THAT would be a classic that could be used on many a DUFU edition:
Talk about a perfect Rovian storm!!!
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