Posted on 10/02/2012 12:09:22 PM PDT by dead
Up until the viral video of Obamaphone Lady appeared (“Keep Obama in president, you know!”), the webpage at obamaphone.net was all about how President Obama was giving all the poor people free phones. As if he was paying the bill, rather than us.
But now that the Obamaphone Lady has been exposing the program so effectively as a vote-buying giveaway to hate-filled societal leeches, the Obamaphone.net page has changed completely.
Guess what?! Obama has nothing to do with it! As you might expect, it’s Bush’s fault, at least partially. The webpage that previously bragged about how much Obama was doing for the leeches, now says it was a program under Bush, that was started under Clinton in accordance with a law passed by FDR after an agreement with the phone companies was reached by Woodrow Wilson. I’m not making that up, see for yourself. The new Obamaphone.net webpage was slapped together in the last few days, obviously without an editor in sight. It reads like a Chinese take-out menu for very happy family to you of good health for light!
Many people think that Obama is giving free cellphones to the poor in order to redistribute the wealth of rich people. Since then two groups are mudslinging at each other... But the Obama part is not true as Obama didn’t initiate this program. It’s on the run since the administration of Reagan… It started back in 2008 when Trafcone started their service under this program at Tennessee. At the same year Obama was elected President but Trafcone began their Safelink service three months before which means the program was discussed and approved by Obama’s predecessor Bush. So now you know that there is nothing called “the Obama Phone”! The president actually has no real impact on the program so it shouldn’t be called “Obama Phones”. The Lifeline program for cell phones was actually started under President George Bush with grants from an independent company crated under president Clinton.
The changes have dishonestly been backdated to December 2011 to pretend it has nothing to do with the Obama Administration running away from the program they used to brag about. Unfortunately, I can’t find the original obamaphone.net page that gave all the credit to Dear Leader. It’s been wiped clean. Even archive.org’s Wayback Machine has been scrubbed!
With my limited skills, I have been unable to find an archived version anywhere. If any of you can, please post it to keep Obama in President, you know!
The Obama Phone Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJA6hn0Pnwo&feature=related
Dick Barber was a member of Zappa’s early Mothers Of Invention Band. He was credited on albums as “The Snorker.” An interesting vocal sound. Sort of like a pig snort.
Thank you!
Hahaha...how far we’ve fallen! Will share :)
Hindisght asks; why has this not been done already???!
“The webpage that previously bragged about how much Obama was doing for the leeches, now says it was a program under Bush, that was started under Clinton in accordance with a law passed by FDR after an agreement with the phone companies was reached by Woodrow Wilson.”
That doesn’t sound right. I’m pretty sure this program was started under the John Adams administration.
These idiot democRATS are are so stupid.... George William Bush ? Seriously ?
Dumbass liberal from government school(s), it’s George Walker Bush.
That one was great!
Ah. I guess I have led a sheltered life! But the sound is about right. :)
“The webpage that previously bragged about how much Obama was doing for the leeches, now says it was a program under Bush, that was started under Clinton in accordance with a law passed by FDR after an agreement with the phone companies was reached by Woodrow Wilson.”That doesn’t sound right. I’m pretty sure this program was started under the John Adams administration.
No, I believe you are mistaken. Clearly this was an intention of the original founders and the enactment plans for this program were set into place under the Washington administration.
I saw the pine cone, too. The blog format site had a rotating image at the top, and when I grabbed it there was the steering wheel. Can’t believe the William Bush line. Odd choice of stock photo selections, lol. I guess they didn’t pay much attention to the template under such “pressure” to distance.They simply, in their infinite wisdom and technical prowess, put up a standard WordPress template and cut and pasted some of the language into the form of blog entries (thus the made up dates), then the url was redirected to the WordPress blog. That is only something that you would do if you had zero time to implement a change to a webpage, as it is very amateurish. Even a novice web designer could throw together a holding page of better design in under two hours. The images at the top are loading from WordPress, as part of the template design - I've seen it on hundreds of blogs.
The obvious attempt to deceive is the entry dates, IMHO. They try to give the illusion that the appropriate verbage has been on the site since 2011 - which we all know to be total rubish.
Well,,,, Frank was an acquaintance of mine, and I was quite into his music. He once asked me; “JB, do you fingerpick everything?” Very, very interesting man!
Oh, no. I know from a reliable source that it came over on the Mayflower. You know those Brits, though! They always wanna take credit!
Very cool! Maybe I should re-acquaint myself with his music! :)
It is a little bit interesting that 3 major crawlers happened to crawl one specific domain on the same day, but that can hardly be considered “scrubbing”. If changes occurred between the last crawl and the one today, then they would go unnoticed by a bot because of that and not be cached. Does that have the same effect as “scrubbing data”? I suppose in essence you have the same result, but correlation does not equal causation.
What I would find more likely is that either the webmaster / designer made a request to the bots (”SO’s” [sic] as you call them - you might have to help me with that acronym) to crawl the domain at a given time, or the webmaster may know the schedule (pretty easy to figure out based on what the web cache providers publicly show as the date of the last several crawls). That would leave them free to toy around when they knew it wouldn’t get cached.
My question would be as follows... Is the most recent crawl (today) in alignment with what has occurred in the recent past as far as the timeline goes for the respective bots?
I did just check http://obamaphone.net/robots.txt and there is a robots.txt file there. It is minimalistic and uses some tags that are not contained under the original development of the standard. They are as follows:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Much more info is available at: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improving-on-robots-exclusion-protocol.html
Doubtless there are several other tags and methods to deal with bots of this nature and to impress control over how they index a given site.
follow the links and read (there are x-robots tags as well as other meta tags that can be used to force a bot’s content to expire).
nuts, I should’ve posted the above to you...
who the hell is George WILLIAM Bush? W’s middle name is Walker, must be some other Bush guy.
No, but I’ve seen some hilarious emails from the former Detroit school district principle.
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