JimRob & John Robinson - GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER - or the Nut Roots will take down Free Republic

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:

Obama vs. WGN-AM
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.com

Chicago 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.

Excerted

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.com

Much 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.

chicagotribune.com

If 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.

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]:

[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net
[n - 1] 128.242.105.82
[n]     209.147.64.200

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.

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.

[Lexinom]

1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

(Jonah 2)

[OKIEDOC]

CNN, PMSNBC is ripping Palin for all it’s worth.

[ExTexasRedhead]

We’re fighting RAT Hitlers in 2008. Disgusting that scum like this live in the USA.

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Jim!



That's the Spirit!

[tubebender]

The site is working much better here in the Redwoods. No blank pages in a while...

[nutmeg]

a local overloaded server on Cox cable (as they relocate stuff to make way for massive communications and electrical supply infrastructure for whatever the local military base is doing), etc.

I didn't know this... does this affect every one of us that uses Cox cable?

[nutmeg]

You do know that JIMROB and staff have been working on installing some new servers, don’t you?

I didn't know this... was it announced on FR somewhere, ie in Breaking News?

[nutmeg]

Get the word out. If you need more dough say so and get the money, make the upgrades. Many of us are already seeing FR crashing mulple times per day, or at least slowing down.

I agree. A bit more communication about what's going on with FR would help greatly... :o)

When FR crashes or runs at "dial-up speed", I just give up and go onto something else... it's really been frustrating over the past several months.

[muawiyah]

It can affect everyone who uses Cox cable to the degree they get routed by Cox servers through the Northern Virginia nexus.

Lots of Army stuff is being moved to "down the street". Huge amount. Half of Walter Reed for one thing. Other more interesting things too.

We have more fiber in this area than most countries. I have 4 different fiber providers who've run line through my front yard (for example).

All the power lines around here are going underground. All the communication lines are going underground. Sewers are being constructed to handle the needs of another 12,000 to 20,000 federal employees and their hangers on. The local mall is being torn down and doubled in size to provide an ADDITIONAL 5 million sq. ft. of retail space, etc. This place is going to look like downtown Atlanta in 10 years.

Cox makes use of a number of centers around here. No doubt some of their supporting lines have literally been "moved" recently.

[DollyCali]

BTTT

[Gene Eric]

I give you credit for raising the alarm regarding attacks and provoking a discussion about the infrastructure, but your proposals as I interpreted are unrealistic, archaic, and do not scale.

BTW, what would be your fs of choice: ext2,3, fat, virtual, killer...

[Publius6961]

I’m saying that the content of the posts should be the qualification for being considered a sleeper, not the sign up date.

That would define a dumb sleeper.
We need not waste time discussing those.

My favorite "hmmmmm" sleepers are the less clever ones who post, "Look at this article ripping conservatives apart and demanding more wealth distribution! Isn't it terrible?"

And then there are the truly clever ones.

[nutmeg]

Very interesting... I had no idea. I have to say that we've had very few Cox cable outages over the years. I'm pretty satisfied with their service overall, although the Cox (computer) cable telephone tech support has gone downhill (fortunately I found a good computer guy in town).

All the power lines around here are going underground. All the communication lines are going underground. Sewers are being constructed to handle the needs of another 12,000 to 20,000 federal employees and their hangers on. The local mall is being torn down and doubled in size to provide an ADDITIONAL 5 million sq. ft. of retail space, etc. This place is going to look like downtown Atlanta in 10 years.

Are you in northern Virginia or Indiana? (you are flying the Indiana flag on your profile page) Do you think power and communication lines will go underground all over the country? I'm really getting tired of power outages because trees and tree limbs fall on power lines, lines come down because of ice and snow, and... of course they are unsightly...

[trussell]

Oh Master Kidd...would it be ok with you if I ask for prayer for a 13 year old who was molested and feels sick, confused, vulnerable, disgusted, scared and mad? Or would you consider that unworthy of a post?

Guess I’ll take it to the prayer warriors in a private message so as to not invoke your wrath.

[Quix]

AGREED. Many have been here a long time.

I don’t know if they’ve been cloning, dividing like amoebas or breeding . . . or tumbling out of the widening jaws of hell. But there are more of them percentage wise.

Dreadful.

[Quix]

Fascinating.

Would you be willing to engage in a thought experiment hereon or by FREEPMAIL?

1. Assume that the powers that be are aware of/planning some very major stuff of whatever sort . . . generally and particularly in that area . . .

2. What are the 4 most likely possibilities of what “very major stuff” might be?

3. What do you speculate might be the powers that be’s expectations regarding ‘ultimate’ state of such things?

4. What contingencies seem to be the most obvious?

5. What options are they improving, increasing?

6. What are the implications for other nearby areas e.g. areas moved FROM?

Thx in advance.

[Quix]

Prayers for the kid. Boy or girl?

I trust it wasn’t one of yours!??

Prayers and hugs.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

What I read into it is that the "freeping" of polls is almost always a waste of time and a distraction, often pulling us into "Have you stopped beating your wife" sites by --- who else?

I'm not sure how this could be. It often takes no more than 10 seconds to click on a poll link, vote, then return to FR.

Not to perpetuate stereotypes...having 'mom' as my handle, but I am no techie...BUT...

I never 'FReep' any polls (leaving FR and hitting a link to leftie site). The reason, when we come right back here, can't we bring cookies with us? Even w/firewalls, isn't that a bad idea? If someone could 'splain it to me...but that was my very rudimentary understanding...don't go to lets say DU from 'here' because you don't know what you might bring back.

Thanks in advance to any techie type who can explain this.

[LakeLady]

"Isn't there a song...something about arosen bloomin?">/i>

That's actually, "Oh how our rose hair bloomin'"

[LakeLady]

‘nuff said.
There are braniacs down to dumb, dumber and dumbest in every category of humanity.