PD...I knew right away what he was doing. He doesn't even know who he supports, lol :

 About clamcoinc

Multi-Millionaire Oil Tycoon

McClain-Palin Supporter

User Name:clamcoinc
Member Since:September 06, 2007
Last Signed In:September 29, 2008
Profile Views:48
Blog Views:360
 

captcha: EYESS

WOW, Left wingers will stop at nothing even invented phony posts and doctored mis-spellings.

I can actually spell both candidates names.

Capt. John Sidney McCain III

Barak (Barry) Hussein Obama

LOL...too late, clammy. The 48 people who viewed your profile saw the spelling. And speaking of spelling:

I can actually spell both candidates names. Really?

Capt. John Sidney McCain III

Barak (Barry) Hussein Obama   -   Try again...it's BARACK    

Well I'll admit I'm not too good with Muslim names.

And now the idiotic anti-Hillybeans sites are gone. Easy come, easy go, I guess.  I thought it was some of my best stuff.  Sure PO'ed Clamcoinc....

Well, I enjoyed sticking up for free speech, critical inquiry, and intelligent discourse, even if such activities merited disapproval from some.

Miss Jed Jane: feel free to post, but if your cut and paste job wraps around the top of the blog, just delete it.  It would be preferable if you used your own words, if you are capable.

I did not know that anyone could post under someone else's user ID. 

Sorry about deleting the Ritter blog but it became something that was not pleasant to read.  Someone hijacked the blog and changed the header to show a "mug shot" of Ritter.  My access to the new header did not show the blogger's name nor did it display an option to delete that particular posting.  I have no idea how it was done. 

The content became disturbing to some bloggers, including me, so I just dumped it.  The initial purpose of the blog was lost in all the volatile postings.  I apologize if my deleting it all was the wrong way to go. 

Thanks swilli for deleting the post...it was beginning to smell like milk gone sour.

Seems as though a banning is in order. Can TN ban IP addresses, or just usernames? What I read above made me sick to my stomach. I don't know what the hell happened, but for god's sake I was only gone for one lil ole weekend.

I don't know bohammond, and I don't have a context to place the remark into, so I can't make a call on whether or not those are his or her words. HOWEVER, I can spot from 2000 miles away that those are not PD's words. Not at all. This really does make me feel sick to my stomach... Can one really edit another user's post on his or her own blog?? For crap sakes, MS. EDITOR!! Can you disable that feature without screwing anything else up? And what in the WORLD happened to Swilli's header photo??

If TN can't ban this Thing's IP address, then we should enter into an Operation Ignore pact, aka OpIggy. Punishment for violation of the pact is to be banned to the land of the Iggies by everyone else.

Okay, bloggers, you've got my attention.

First of all, I have to remind you to please use the "report a violation" button as soon as you feel something needs our attention. If that doesn't generate the response you'd like, please call us at 822-6828 and ask to speak to me or our Managing Editor, Peter DeArmond.   

Second: The blogs with the alleged violations are no longer visible. Once deleted, they've gone out into the ether world, so I have no evidence to support these claims.

Third: I'll  put in a request for our tech staff to do some snooping, but I'm fairly certain the only way that anyone other than the blog's owner can access said blog is via your password.

Fourth: Having said that, you all know that anyone can create a profile using any name or  moniker that is not already taken. All it takes is an email address. If you feel someone is attempting to "impersonate" you - use the violation button immediately!

Fifth: We are able to block an IP address, but without clear evidence of a violation, this would be unethical - in my opinion. I've asked the principal parties to contact me so they can give me their account of what transpired here. I hope an accord can be reached and appropriate words of peace can be exchanged. Words are indeed, powerful little creatures.    

Finally: I've said it before and I'll say it again: This blog is what you bloggers choose to make of it. Regrettably, the Tehachapi News can't babysit 24/7. That doesn't mean we won't respond to you if you make reasonable efforts to contact and properly inform us of the situation.  I wish I had more time to interact with all of you, because I've actually grown rather fond of most of you. Others...not so much. But a lack of agreement or affection doesn't  preclude civility - in any forum.  

Now please, it's a beautiful day in Tehachapi. Enjoy it!  

—Carin Enovijas, Features Editor

Calmcoinc could clarify what he did.  At first I thought my account had been hijacked, later I realized that he had merely made his postings appear to be ours by copying the fonts. 

As for the mug shots, due to some programming bug, it occurs when a large cut-and-paste is applied in the comment box.  That had happened here this morning, the blog owner needs to just delete that post, if the poster is too rude to do it themselves.

Editor - I did report the violation immediately, twice, about 5:45 yesterday afternoon.  The first, when I thought my account had been hijacked, the second a few minutes later when I realized that only the fonts had been imitated.  As for the evidence, the offending posts are cut and paste above.  I had a feeling that Clamcoinc would delete them. 

Anyway, I'm not asking you to police the sandbox.  Some kids just don't play well with others.  Nothing new about that. 

Riceme, this is a drupal open source site with many modules, the best CMS around ... banning IP addresses can easily be done.  There is also status report module that the administrator can read that will inform him/her of all the going-ons on this site and when.   If indeed someone has hacked other people's blogs/posts there is a way to find out who it is by the IP address.  If you want to take this further, you can even find out who owns the IP address legally.

I agree that is NOT a PD post (above), and I have personally met Bohammond...wonderful, peace-loving guy, the above certainly doesn't sound like anything he would say either, since he is for more government, and pro government.  None of this makes sense.

 I am familiar with the CHPV, OldBlue, and Clam gang.  CHPV flies the confederate flag in front of his house which scares his neighbors, Oldblue his buddy, is obviously a bigot as well from arguments I have had with him in past posts and Clam well, he's the top clown in the gang.  lol

I wish I created this site, and had access to the admin..........LMFAO

Carin, thank you for the reminders. I think that we have all (or, mostly) forgotten about the "Report Violation" buttons. I know that I had. We were off willy-nilly on our own for so long,... I dunno. Just forgot.

It's unfortunate that there's no proof of what transpired.

Also, I re-read what I addressed to you above and wanted to clarify that I did not mean to imply that I thought you would screw something up if you tinkered with the features on the Blogs. I phrased that poorly, and it came across wrong. Sorry :(.

Sparks, thanks for the lesson in.... whatever gobbledy gook you just said that's from that science fiction planet you live on. :)

For Carin's benefit, PD and I have never agreed on a single thing, and have argued viciously most anytime we exchange words. We've no love lost for each other. However, standing-up for who and what I believe in is far, far more important to me than any personal or political differences that I may have with someone. I know that Sparks just said that you can look to see who did what to whom on some log, but I wanted to draw that point on my statement that those were not PD's words.

Thanks, Carin, for looking into this. Clearly, it has disturbed a lot of us.

PD is absolutely right, I can't view the blog any longer but a copy of a large html page that is pasted into a blog will throw the blog out off whack.   This I don't think is done with malicious intent. Copying other people's posts, editing them using the same font, then reposting them is wrong, and should be reported as a violation, it is not however hacking a site.   I don't think this site was hacked, quite frankly I don't think anyone who would do such a devious thing on this blog has the know-how to do it.   As the Editor has pointed out, if you want personal attacks to stop you will HAVE to inform them, I don't keep an eye on every single post in every website I have either, it's impossible.  The administrator of this site doesn't know what is going on unless YOU REPORT it to him/her.  Once he/she does knows, it will be easier for him/her to prove, An Admin can even prove that the blog once existed if it gets deleted, however once a blog is deleted all content is lost forever.

Bottom line:

Whether these guys are shady charactors or not...they simply do not know how to hack this site.

PD: I'm not following... Do I understand correctly that clamcoinc copied and pasted posts that you and bohammond had made, then altered the text? Or... what?

Sorry if I'm slow on the uptake here, but what I see above clearly looks like you and bohammond saying "blah, blah, blah". I'm not catching how clamco could accomplish that, with your nicks and pictures on the left, then mimicking the fonts.

Check out how on what is supposed to be PD's post, in the time/date stamp, the "p" in "PM" is lowercase, so it reads as such: "pM". Now I'm seeing some other little things, like a one space indent on the PD post where there shouldn't be one, and that there's black text where there should be grey text... Maybe I'm catching on.

This gives me an icky feeling inside. "Mama no like."