Remember my article, “Tricked out Obotmobile?” The Obama 2012 sticker in the photo looked bright and shiny. It’s coming apart today. I don’t mean that my tattered Obama bumper sticker is a metaphor for President Obama’s second term in office. I just mean it as a example of the fact that things get old and wear out, or in the words of the hymn writer Henry Francis Lyte:
Change and decay in all around I see;
Replacing the bumper sticker is on my to-do list and so are a lot of other decay-related things.
One of my wishes is that one day when I hang up my Dr. Conspiracy hat, the blog will remain online as a reference for anyone interested in our peculiar topic. Towards that end, I’ve been doing some work on the site, cleaning up old articles for typos, and adding updated references in a few old stories—and there are the inevitable broken hyperlinks.
The first bad hyperlink I found appeared in the “Bad” links at the bottom of the page, a link to a blog called “The Betrayal.” It had a black background on the page, and it seemed to pick up every birther story from the other sites. I knew that it had been offline for a while, but hadn’t removed the link. The one that surprised me was the Hawaii Department of Health Obama FAQ, a document I refer to almost weekly. It’s moved and been reformatted, but it still opens with that powerful statement:
On April 27, 2011 President Barack Obama posted a certified copy of his original Certificate of Live Birth.
Can’t you just feel a thrill up your leg every time you read that?
The reason that I’m writing this article is primarily to publish a list of web sites I referenced that have gone away since I started writing this blog:
- OilForImmigration.org (The Betrayal)
- CountUsOut.wordpress.com (suspended for TOS violation)
- CrisEricson2010.blogspot.com
- FightTheSmearsAgain.wordpress.com
- ObamaKenyanOrIndonesian.com
- NiggerObama.com
- ObamaTrueAndFalse.com
- ObamaWaffles.typepad.com
- ParalegalNM.wordpress.com (Leonard Daneman)
- ResistNet.com
- CaosBlog.com (domain expired this month)
- StopObamaInfo.org
- TrueObamaFacts.com
- Zapem.wordpress.com
- stop-obama.org
- FightTheSmears.com
- Vermontropy.com
- BryanKeithNixon.com
- YesToDemocracy.com
- AppealingDentistry.com (Taitz dental practice)
- BulletContract.com
- UncleStrawberry.com
- MissTickly.wordpress.com
- TheIssueJoined.blogspot.com
- EdSchultz.invisionzone.com
- SaveOurConstitution.ning.com
- BlogTalkRadio.com/the-american-complaint-department/
- VattelVision.com
- PolitiJab.com
- WashAmericom.org
and there are more. In addition to these web sites that have gone dark, there are hundreds of specific court and newspaper pages no longer available. I have about 3,000 hyperlinks to check out and replace with the Wayback Machine when available, remove when not. I have some of the court documents on my hard drive that I can upload.
And please, don’t leave a bad URL with your name and email when posting a comment. The URL is not required, and bad ones clog the list of broken links on the pages. Don’t say “none,” just leave it blank.
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