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.
Think of the invalidation of treaties, orders, signed documents that would result if Obama is not constitutionally qualified. There are leaders in the world who would love to ignore contracts and agreements signed by Obama, based on this scandal. Dangerous for this country.
It may not be the actual document contents that present a problem. It is more likely that all of the suppressed information does not line up. Perhaps one of college applications reveal that he is a foreign exchange student?
They created this fraud from the beginning, and DNC went along!!!
If the fraud is an illegal alien and not eligible according to the Constitution's grandfather clause, don't you think there are a lot of people scared right now???
Maybe his father is actually listed as “Turkey Baster.”
Are you saying the Constitution we have is less important as long as we get a foreigner into the White House???
Read the article preceding this article, there is your answer!!!
When they do(and they will have to eventually)he will have taken office and the scandal will cause a near catastrophe.We will survive.but a lot of MSM types and polititians will not.
Extremely good point. Discover the truth, verify it and stick to it. Just one silly rumor can do more to discredit good facts than a carload of lawyers with a year's worth of time. But when truth and bullshit collide in a controlled manner, the effects can be spectacular.
Obama has already won the election. So the fact that he continues to block the release of his birth certificate becomes even stranger if it doesn’t disqualify him from serving.
I don’t think either Rush or Hannity has discussed it. Why? I don’t have a clue.
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.
In fact, they regularly violate the constitution. I saw the other day that Hillary is not constitutionally qualified to become Secretary of State because she voted in the Senate to raise the salary for that position. In the past when this sort of thing happened, they lowered the salary to what it was before the Senate raised it, and let the Senator take the position, but that is NOT what the Constitution says.
Also, a correction: If it happens, it would be the THIRD time Americans take up arms to establish our forefathers’ principles. Don’t forget the War Between the States.
remember the API video story and especially that girl with the ‘B’ scratched on her face.
Very strange. To the point of being surreal.
Hell yeah look at wacko jacko
Maybe Obama is perfectly natural born. Maybe there is something else on that document he is hiding, something that would causeso many Americans to feel that he has hoodwinked them.
Or maybe he is actually hoping for a scandal so that he can then show his birth certificate and make anyone who dared to question him look foolish, a la Alinsky tactics. He then solidifies his hold over Americans.
RUSH: I am sensing panic setting in on the part of many of you. I also sense panic on the other side, by the way. I’m visiting various websites, I’m opening my own e-mail, and the e-mails that I am getting are getting a little nuttier, more so than usual. And now they’re starting to come in from smart people, people I know, people that are smart, insisting I focus on some issue that will have no impact on the election. But they think it’s a game-changer. One of the big things is this birth certificate thing. The birth certificate has been sealed by the governor of Hawaii, after Obama went to see his dying grandmother, who is still alive. I know about the legal case that went on in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania with Mr. Berg and so forth, but, folks, it’s a waste of time.
If you can’t prove it, it’s a total waste of time. It’s not a game-changer. If you can’t prove it to people, you’re just wasting your time and you’re avoiding really talking about the substance here, the basics: the basics on principles, the basics on the economy, individual liberty. These are the things that are at stake in this country. The obvious belief that if we vote and we make our friends and neighbors vote, we’re going to win the day. This is simple. This is a turnout election. There are a couple of other things here in addition to the birth certificate thing. There’s one other I can’t recall. We can’t prove it, and if you can’t prove it, it’s not worth spending any time on. I don’t like people getting all this desperate here when it’s not necessary. Just get everybody you know and make sure they vote. Just turn out. It’s a turnout election.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_103008/content/01125104.guest.html
remember the API video story and especially that girl with the ‘B’ scratched on her face.
I know I affirmed that statement.
Extremely good point. Discover the truth, verify it and stick to it. Just one silly rumor can do more to discredit good facts than a carload of lawyers with a year’s worth of time. But when truth and bullshit collide in a controlled manner, the effects can be spectacular.
Here is an example. The story states the following:
“he (Obama) has failed to meet one of the three requirements that the U.S. Constitution mandates, specifically that he provide proof of his “natural born” U.S. citizenship.”
In fact, the Constituiton does not require that anyone provide PROOF the he/she meets the citizenship requirement. It requires that they meet the requirement. How that is to be proved is not defined. That is part of the problem.
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