but he invented the internet ya know

 

So-far-so-good today. Yesterday wasn't too bad either. Didn't have any luck on Monday-I logged in, and clicked on User CP. I clicked on a thread, and the screen turned white, and it said "Done" down at the bottom, on the little status bar thing. I refreshed, and same thing. Did it 2 or 3 times.

 

As you MAY have noticed, I haven't been around much lately. I had a LIFE over the holidays... and, I just didn't notice y'all were having a problem. Since I'm "persona non grata" here lately, I haven't bothered to check in to see what was (or was NOT) happening.

If you are looking for someone to blame this on.... you'll have to find another "liberal loving" CENTRIST to blame it on. Maybe, you can blame it on the MUSLIMS!! :hellno:

Whatever.

 

(deep voice)
....................HOBO... I AM YOUR FATHER!

 

After he invented the internet he invented global warming. :lol:

 

Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

 

No. Not really. As a centrist, I espouse some ideas from both ends of the political spectrum. but since there are so few Liberals on this site, and they catch heck most of the time, I tend to side with them and/or defend them.

Anyway.... whatever.

 

Dang... Hoggie! You sure know how to ruin an already bad day! :hellno::lol:

 

Hey, Hoggie!! Put this pic in your "caption this" thread and put this caption under it for me:

Darth IN-Vader!

:lol::lol:

 

I found this in The Weekly Standard, you guy's might find interesting! Makes me wonder about the source of our DOS attacks.

Obama's Army

Today wasn't the first time Barack Obama asked his supporters to "get in the face" of people who disagree with Sen. Obama. In fact, yesterday's Chicago Tribune carried an illuminating story on the "Obama Action Wire"--Obama's flash-mob tool designed to disrupt media criticism of the candidate in real time.

Here's how the Obama Action Wire Works: The campaign has a large database of supporters. When the campaign gets wind of something in the media it doesn't like, for instance, a radio interview with an Obama critic or a TV ad being run critical of Obama, the Action Wire directs people in the database to flood the offending media outlet with phone calls and emails. Many times, this is done while the interview is being conducted on air.

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. . . .

Zack Christenson, executive producer of "Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg," said the response was about the same. "It's just constant, constant phone calls, and the e-mails are pouring in," he said, adding that the extra volume of calls made it more difficult to run the show.

The effect of the Action Wire seems to be to create something like a Denial of Service Attack. Now, DoS attacks aren't illegal (at least not in the United States; they are in the U.K.).

But surely it says something about the Obama campaign's commitment to free and fair exchange of ideas that his campaign actively prods people into disrupting the airing of views it finds displeasing. It wasn't always that way. During the primaries, part of Obama's stump speech was about the need to listen to your political opponents and to interact with them politely. Obama didn't mean for this dialogue to result in the compromise of liberal ideals, of course. He explicitly meant that in order to achieve liberal political ends it would be necessary to appear collegial and open-minded in order to persuade independents to join the movement. Here's how he put it in New Hampshire:

In my own life, I've discovered that if you really know what you stand for, if you know what you believe in, if you know who you are fighting for, if you know what you care about and cannot be compromised--then you can afford to reach out across the aisle. You can talk to people who don't agree with you. And you do so not just because you think that you're always going to persuade them, but because people out in America, outside of Washington, are listening.

And they want to see that we can--that we don't have to agree on everything to work on something. That we can disagree without being disagreeable. That's how we can attract independents [to the] change agenda. That's how we can attract some Republicans. That's how we build a working majority for change. And you can afford to be courteous. And you can say, "Yes, sir." And "No, sir." "Yes, ma'am." "No, ma'am." But if you're going to be in the way of change, get out of the way--we're pushing you aside. Very politely of course.

As the Action Wire show's Obama is still all for pushing people aside. But he no longer sees the necessity for politeness.
Exit Question: I suppose it's one thing for a candidate to issue orders for what amounts to a DoS attack on media he dislikes. But would President Obama keep the Action Wire up and running?