Why we went dark |
Posted on 11/27/2008 12:43:11 PM PST by ckilmer
Why we went dark |
By David Arnett, Publisher | |
Thursday, 27 November 2008 | |
Monday morning Tulsa Today posted an analysis by veteran New York journalist and the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards, Joan Swirsky, titled, The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of 08 questioning the missing Barack Obama birth certificate and his eligibility to serve as President of the United States. Two hours and 10,000 page views later, our local Internet Service Provider and domain hosting service, Tulsa Connect locked us off the Internet.
This action was taken without warning or formal notice, but after several telephone conversations the picture became clear. Our agreement with Tulsa Connect was for shared hosting service. In that type of service, they load many domains on the same computer server. We were told that of the 300 to 600 client domains on that one piece of equipment, Tulsa Today always experienced the highest levels of traffic, but the overwhelming interest in the Obama birth certificate story slowed service to the other clients and rather than consider that reader traffic a peak that would soon recede, Tulsa Connect discontinued Tulsa Todays public access. They contend that there was no way their equipment could handle such a high volume of traffic.
By telephone we pleaded for an option. As Tulsas original (est. 1996) local live Internet news service, off-line is never acceptable. There was no immediate solution or work-around offered by Tulsa Connect. The only option they suggested was to move our site to a separate server for a cost increase of about 600 percent. There was no guarantee from Tulsa Connect of when they would be able to return functionality to Tulsa Today.
Fortunately, Tulsa Today found another service and within 8 hours, the site was moved and is now available for readers worldwide. Evolution Studios now provides hosting for Tulsa Today at a lower cost than shared service from Tulsa Connect and with no limitation on reader traffic. They are customer service orientated, responsive and pulled Herculean duty to accomplish this task as fast as computers could load our admittedly huge site. Evolution Studios provides 24-hour technical support and they used some of those after-hours to get this transfer done. As a web developer, I have worked with them on other projects in the past and their consistent focus on clear communication with and quality service for their clients has been a blessing in a niche field oddly populated by pinhead techno-bully-nerds with limited interpersonal skills. There is no indication that Tulsa Connect limited options or blocked public access to Tulsa Today because of the political content of the story. Any conspiracy theory suggested by anyone at this time is without credible justification. Tulsa is the heartland; we believe in the Constitution of the United States of America and the free speech promised to both the press and to the people. Tulsans of all races, creeds, and both genders have and will fight to defend it. However, we are rethinking our buy local business procedure. Evolution Studios is not based in Tulsa. Come to think about it, we might help them open an office here. They are a national provider of Internet based services apparently and significantly more attentive to client need than many other providers. Tulsa Connect was provided advance notice of this story and invited to make a statement explaining their actions. None was forthcoming as of this writing. We understand their equipment dilemma, but it was not our responsibility to monitor their server traffic or anticipate and provision for their company's growth. Apparently they prefer clients with small web sites few visit. There is some personal sadness in this change as I began Tulsa Today with the Tulsa Connect folks in 1996 when they were called WebZone. The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of 08 continues to see huge readership as it has been linked to major national and international web sites including: World Net Daily (which features an entire page of Obama birth certificate stories), Right Side News, Lucianne and others. One reader wrote most concisely, Obama has spent over $800,000 and several months fighting to avoid presenting a $10 copy of a long-form birth certificate begging the ultimate question, why? Critics have assailed the work both to Tulsa Today and author Joan Swirsky. The piece posited just one speculative idea and the angry Left calls it packing so many conspiracy theories Ya got to love the angry Looney Left, allergic to facts and satisfied to refute them with gratuitous personal insults. We can do that. Additionally, the blogosphere is ablaze with stories about it, pro and con, according to Oklahomas own Mike McCarville who notes an e-mail from Bunny Chambers of Oklahoma City, a Republican elector this year saying, There must be something to hide if BHO wont release proof, if he has it, that he is a natural born US citizen. He isnt officially elected until the Electoral College meets on December 15th. I am a member of the 2008 Electoral College. I cant believe that this is actually happening right before our eyes. We must do something! Ive worked over 30 years to protect our US Constitution and now it seems that it will have been all for naught." No Bunny, as long as we have life there is hope. Hope that citizens will continue to demand honest transparent government, hope that all government service will be conducted at the highest moral and ethical standards, hope that the courts will act according to the Constitution, and hope that media will be the guardians they proclaim is not dead. Hope thrives as we live. We give hope every day around the kitchen table. I have taught my daughter and she is teaching her children stand for what is true, just, and right in honor of those before you that have fought and died to guarantee that precious freedom. We will granddad, the kids answer. Thus freedom flourishes despite whatever crisis of the day may come technical or political from dark to dawn. About the author:
David Arnett began his career in professional journalism in 1985 and has published Tulsa Today since 1996 years before Al Gore invented the Internet and "blogs" began. He has won two national awards as a First Amendment Publisher. Arnett is an idea guy, a Constitutional Republican, a Conservative Media Critic and a proud pain in the political derriere of the disingenuous.
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I agree about the missing college records.. How hard is it — to find someone inside to unearth the documents?
Also, why hasn’t someone done research on U.S. Passport for Obama. Has he ever applied for U.S. passport? Has one ever been issued or refused?
I know this could be called a matter of privacy — but surely our government (CIA/FBI) has the right to look into these matters.
placemark
“Old History, New History, New think, Old think” etc. George Orwell did see the future.
Yup, Hawaii is different. Birth certificates are released only to persons with a ‘tangible interest’ in the record. The officials in charge seem to regard only relation by blood as the basis for a ‘tangible interest’, or at very least do not regard the verification of meeting Constitutional requirements to serve as POTUS are giving citizens or even electors a ‘tangible interest’ in viewing birth certificates.
Our Republican politicians have access to those records, if they have the guts to look.
STAND UP AMERICA! The presidential election is not over!
We voted for electors, not the individual candidates. The electors vote on or after December 15, 2009. The results are then presented to a joint session of Congress and objections may be heard on January 8, 2009 pursuant to the 20th amendment and Public Law 110-430. See the letter on my About page hand-delivered to the local offices of my Republican Senators and Representatives. I urge you to take similar action, even if it is simply faxing a one page letter to Washington, D.C.
The hell you say! Not without proof.
He is the legitimately elected President of the United States.
Not yet he isn't...or are you "one of those"?
Note to all:
Hospital records for the time period in question do not indicate O’s mother being admitted to give birth or any other reason.
Also, O gave a detailed description of his BC in one of his books. Which begs the question, why? Unless he was trying to do a pre-emptive spin on this issue knowing something was wrong.
And I think his recent act of pretending to already be running the country in an attempt to pressure the court not to act.
We’ll know something the 5th.
SCOTUS is our last hope for our republic and our freedom.
/SARCASM!
My post was sarcasm, or at least was intended to be...
Don’t you remember that during the primary campagin Obama travelled to Iraq and to Afghanistan to visit the troops on a US passport and he spoke in Berlin on a US passport as well.
“Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural born citizen. He is the legitimately elected President of the United States.”
“Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”
Good one!
Orwell’s 1984 is happening a little late, but it’s amazing how prophetic he was.
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I think theres alot to be said for all the missing school records. Thats the link we should research as I believe that they show him as being a foreign student.
Good point and something I had not thought of. He did however, travel internationally recently, and a BC would probably be needed to acquire a passport.
I just realized something. My son who was born abroad does not have a long form one at all. I never really thought about it. But he might have one in Switzerland. The American Embassy gave me something that would be more like the short form.
Maybe Obama doesn't have a long form one.
First of all, I’d like to know how YOU know it was a US passport and secondly, you can get US passport’s WITHOUT a BC.
One reply was a link to YouTube 3 minutes long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJc6uczdhE0
Another reply was from Free America52,,,,"One of the most emotional things I have ever seen. 22 minutes long but its worth every minute".
http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr10-17-08.html
Both links are great, I agree worth every minute!
When my daughter, who lives in a different state, needed a birth certificate to get a passport she asked me to get one for her. I went to the town hall of the city she was born in and got one for my daughter simply by showing my driver’s license as I.D. She got her passport with it. Apparently, Hawaii has difference rules, or it claims it does.
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural born citizen. He is the legitimately elected President of the United States.
He may well have been born in HI but you can’t prove it anymore than those saying he wasn’t can prove he wasn’t.
As far as ‘legitimately elected President of the United States’ that isn’t the case as of yet. As of this date the Electors haven’t voted and the US Congress hasn’t certified the votes.. Until those two events occur Obama doesn’t fit your description.
You got it because you’re her mom. If obuma’s mother went she’d get his too (if she was alive). It’s unrelated parties that can’t get access.
Wasn’t his passport hacked a few months ago? His and Hillary’s I think. There was a little news blurb about it but nothing much, and then it became old news really quickly.
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