Posted on 09/17/2008 10:28:43 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:
Obama vs. WGN-AMIf you guys in the Robinson family don't get your act together, and get it together soon, then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months.
The station is coming under attack for offering airtime to controversial author.
by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke | Tribune staff reporters
September 16, 2008
chicagotribune.comChicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.
Monday night's target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.
Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Campaign targets media when attacks aired By John McCormick | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:32 AM CDT, September 17, 2008
chicagotribune.comMuch of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.
Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.
It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.
You need to do several things to the Free Republic infrastructure and have them in place no later than about October 1; among them:
1) Mirror Free Republic to at least two other physical locations around the country - one on the east coast [Washington/NYC/Atlanta], and the other maybe more central [Texas has some large colo's with backbone connectivity].
Right now, I am seeing only two IP resolutions for "www.freerepublic.com" - 209.147.64.200 & 209.147.64.201 - and traceroutes have them [predictably] on the same physical network [I imagine that they are sitting right next to one another in the same server rack]:
2) Turn off as much of the relational structure at Free Republic as is possible, and return to a strictly flat file structure for as much of the content at Free Republic as is possible.[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [n - 1] 128.242.105.82 [n] 209.147.64.200 The current relational structure is hopelessly broken, and the negotiations between the caching frontend and the relational backend are breaking down multiple times a day.
Again: THE RELATION STRUCTURE MUST BE DISCARDED - THIS IS IMPERATIVE.
[Furthermore, it is vastly easier to propagate a flat file structure to multiple physical sites around the country; trying to propagate a relational structure, in real time, with relatively limited funds for bandwidth, is essentially impossible.]
3) As things really heat up in October & November, I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies - concentrating instead on promoting the work of people [like Kristinn] who are doing original investigative reporting and who are presenting their results in simple, straightforward, declarative arguments.
Along those lines, I'd move aggressively to upgrade the quality of the moderators who are policing the content at Free Republic - the quality of the moderation is utterly unpredictable from hour to hour - one hour there will seem to be a moderator who "gets it", and the next hour, it's as if that moderator's shift suddenly ended, and we have an utterly clueless moderator in charge of things.
I don't care if you're worried about hurting Granny's feelings if you tell her that she can't moderate for the next two months - we have to get some moderators in here who are up-to-date on current events and who understand the difference between original investigative reporting [regarding e.g. DEM/Obama treason & Bolshevik/Gramscian subterfuge] and the kinds of "Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning" threads which seem to waste so much CPU time & bandwidth at this site.
Getting a little big for your britches, aren’t you?
Everything that's happened has been at his behest. It's his political meme. And it's going to get worse, especially when the GOP polls as strong as it has.
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Excellent observation and one I have maintained for sometime.
The Daily Machine is about as crooked as as a snake.
Obama is a byproduct of that machine and for Obama winning justifies the means.
These damn liberals need to ask themselves do they really believe Obama cares one iota about them or their future.
Obama is another Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe or God forbid a Hugo Chavez wannabe.
I'm certain online polls can be manipulated, and that they have been in the past. Heck, if Gallup and other polls can be manipulated, and I believe they can be, online polls can be too.
After 2004-10-07 I Meant! Blew that big time.. heh.
Even if the conversion were a good idea and technically sound the wisdom of launching into one a month before the election is kind of non-existent.
amen
While we are offering suggestions, can we do away with so many vanities that are now appearing. I read some of them and have to wonder why they stay posted.
Do you use FireFox?
I am having the same problem on multiple sites and I thought it started after FF was updated to 3.0.1. Now I’ll have to pay more attention to where it is occurring.
Not to take sides with the Daley machine, but Obama is more a product of Cook County/Illinois State politics, IMO. He and Daley have had issues before.
That being said, Illinois politics is a disgrace from both quarters. Below I-80 and West of the Chicago urban sprawl, Illinois is more conservative in nature (oh, there are pockets of socialism for sure). But when you get to Cook County and its influence on Illinois politics, socialism reigns supreme.
I use Firefox and am having the sames problems I had before upgrading to 3.0.1. The upgrade is not the issue. Mainly, when I hit a link it comes up with a blank page. Once I hit refresh it (mostly) opens the page I wanted. That happens when I link to threads, as well as go to make a response. I’d put it at about 40% occurrence.
That’s the one issue I’ve seen in the past few weeks, except for the big downtime of a week or so ago.
Now, I haven’t tried FR on IE to see if that reacts different, and I’m not going to. I only have IE due to Microsoft Update needs. And that suits me fine.
>>Hillary’s Secret Warriors.<<
That’s it!
I loved that book, scary as it was.
Thanks, Joe!
And I thank you all very much for your prayers.
The godless heathens, liberals and atheists are working overtime to deprive us of our religious freedoms and I’ll be damned if they’re going to do it on FR. Prayer will always be welcome on these pages!
Thank God for our wizened Founding Fathers. May our beloved republic and our constitution stand forever against the Marxist/liberal onslaught.
Pray for God to protect our troops, pray for God to guide our leaders, pray for God to bless America and to bless each and everyone of us and all of our loved ones.
Our God is an awesome God!
And I do not fear Obama’s hackers. We’ve fought off much stronger foes. God willing, we will persevere.
Thanks.
will check it out.
Nevertheless, defense is something we CANNOT/MUST NOT ignore.
What’s all this flat-file talk? You lose a lot of good features with that.
Flat files of 50 posts each? What if I do a search of anything? The application is going to have to search through possibly gigabytes of flat files. Relational with indexes and foreign keys does that fast.
Replication by shipping files? If you’re think of a master/slave setup (one server writes and replicates the data to the others, which can be read from), any active thread is going to result in shipping old data. On average, you will ship 1/2 the average file size unnecessarily times the number of active threads. MySQL can be set up so the slaves periodically (even every minute) access the log on the master and read in only the new data.
If you’re thinking of a cluster (all servers reading and writing), forget it with flat files, it’s just not practical.
And most importantly, with flat files you lose enforced data integrity below the application level. It’s dangerous.
IIRC,
I’ve had the same problem in IE8
You have such a knack for bringing tears to my eyes.
Thanks tons for this:
And I thank you all very much for your prayers.
The godless heathens, liberals and atheists are working overtime to deprive us of our religious freedoms and I’ll be damned if they’re going to do it on FR. Prayer will always be welcome on these pages!
Thank God for our wizened Founding Fathers. May our beloved republic and our constitution stand forever against the Marxist/liberal onslaught.
Pray for God to protect our troops, pray for God to guide our leaders, pray for God to bless America and to bless each and everyone of us and all of our loved ones.
Our God is an awesome God!
And I do not fear Obama’s hackers. We’ve fought off much stronger foes. God willing, we will persevere.
Mine has been recent and continues as I browse. I’ve not seen it on other sites; only FR. However I don’t spend a lot of time on other sites (comparatively). It’s the one NEW issue I’ve had. All else has been historical though continuing.
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