Posted on 11/27/2008 10:03:35 PM PST by Maelstorm
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. ImageTwo 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 Today’s public access. They contend that there was no way their equipment could handle such a high volume of traffic.
ImageBy telephone we pleaded for an option. As Tulsa’s 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 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.
ImageThere 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?
ImageCritics 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 Oklahoma’s 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 won’t release proof, if he has it, that he is a natural born US citizen. He isn’t officially elected until the Electoral College meets on December 15th. I am a member of the 2008 Electoral College. I can’t believe that this is actually happening right before our eyes. We must do something! I’ve worked over 30 years to protect our US Constitution and now it seems that it will have been all for naught."
ImageNo 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.
If they swear in a non-eligible POTUS in defiance of the US Constitution, then they just gave us all the middle finger and relegated themselves all to be an illegitimate government and we would be right in seceding or starting the second American Revolution. The complete irony is that we would be fighting a second time to put in place the same principles that were fought over once before. These are indeed crazy times.
Speaking of skin color ... have you noticed how Obama has become BLACKER after he won the election?
We were talking about that today ... could he have lightened his skin color to appeal to more surfacy people?
If it IS a normal birth certificate and he’s spent months and tons of lawyer fees to fight to hide it, then he’s got a serious screw loose.
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I'm guessing that Obama is the son of an American Communist. Fully qualified to serve as President under our constitution. Only problem is... he would not be African and his life's story would be total B*ullsh*it. His reputation would be destroyed and his “friends” in the MSM and elsewhere would look like a bunch of fools (which they are anyway). This guy has no credibility in the eyes of the world right now. Imagine if he's exposed as a fraud as well!
Either way, not a natural born citizen or natural born communist... we are in a heap of trouble!
My 13 year old tries that junk sometimes ... kicks and hollers and threatens his momma when things don't go his way. It's my job to show him the error of his ways.
“This Obama guy isn’t so much a grifter as a COMMUNIST!”
He’s a mutt, and he doesnt have the correct papers.
Thanks for this post!
the DNC, Obama and Biden have defrauded the American People and should all be jailed in Guantanamo with the other enemies of state.
If it IS a normal birth certificate and he’s spent months and tons of lawyer fees to fight to hide it, then he’s got a serious screw loose.
***It could also be that he needed to install a perfect forgery that looks like a normal birth certificate. Normally this isn’t that difficult, but he constrained his forger by publishing the CoLB on the web, so the forgery needs to line up exactly with that info.
> Think of what would happen if Clarence Thomas and the other rational judges nullified the Electoral College vote.
In the absence of proof of his eligibility it would be their clear duty to do so. Your consitition is inconvenient that way: it sets down baseline rules that others have the right to insist upon...
Civil unrest is a silly reason not to uphold the law.
“If it IS a normal birth certificate and he’s spent months and tons of lawyer fees to fight to hide it, then he’s got a serious screw loose.”
some people like to play around and drive the other side’s base crazy, to make them look like kooks. Obama may very well have a real problem but conservatives have to be careful and not fall for the BDS (Barack Derangement Syndrome) trap.
have not heard rush for a bit, has he talked at all about hussein the muslim’s (non)birth certificate in the last 2 weeks or so?
Would fighting and looting break out across America as happened with the Rodney King verdict in LA...
Americans will have to decide whether we just kill off that crazy old constitution thing and become a nation governed by men rather than laws, or... we fight to retain our American birthright of a constitutional form of government. We can take the Gandhi path or we can take the Fort Sumter path. Either way, the next decade won't be pretty.
If this clown was a man of character, he would immediately produce proof of his qualification to be sworn in as president or step aside. The fact that he sh*ts in our faces is telling.
We now look to the SCOTUS to preserve the Republic. If they don't establish official procedures for validating the qualifications for president they will have failed to preserve the Constitution of the USA - per their oath of office. As we live in a global society and as many fine people have come here and may seek the presidency, this question needs to be answered for the good of the country. If SCOTUS punts the PEOPLE must demand proof.
Agreed. We’ll see what happens.
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No spaghetti for the tramp, my dear Lady Liberty.
If defending the constitution makes me look like a kook then so be it.
In the 60’s this was known as a Coup D’Etat
The ONLY question - is WHAT it would reveal?
- He was NOT born in Hawaii?
- His father was not the drunken bigamist he adores in his book.
- His slut of a mother listed "Father Unknown"?
- ???????????
The Messiah Obama - in not who he claims to be....
But then, we "White Racists" knew that, didn't we?
conservatives need to be firmly against Obama but avoid the temptation to get too emotional and out of control. Obama is a pretty good manipulator and may do certain things to tweak people.
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