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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 08:12 AM
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INTERNET BLACKOUT DURING DUBYA GUMP VISIT TODAY...
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_ben_marb_060511_internet_blackout_du.htm


May 11, 2006

INTERNET BLACKOUT DURING DUBYA GUMP VISIT TODAY...
...perhaps it was mere COINCIDENCE?
by Ben Marble, M.D.


http://www.opednews.com

So just a few minutes ago Dubya Gump finished delivering the commencement speech for Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College from the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Ms. He spoke for approximately 15-20 by my best guestimate. I noticed that shortly before his speech my internet went out. Strangely enough so did my wife's mother and my wife's aunts internet go out as well. Within 5 minutes of Dubya Gump finishing his speech all were back online. Perhaps it is mere coincidence but with the NSA story breaking today I am more apt to think it was intentional. Perhaps one day we may know the answer?
Ben



www.benmarblemd.com

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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 08:17 AM
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1. That is a strange coincidence and I'd be interested to know..............
....if anyone here had the same problem. I know I had some Internet issues yesterday evening but none so far today that I'm aware of.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 08:18 AM
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2. Do you all use
the same service provider?

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neoblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 08:18 AM
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3. Strange...
I'm suspicious of coincidences... but what purpose would this serve? Can't imagine.

Re: Dubya Gump reference. "Dumber than Shi_ is, as Dumber than Shi_ does"...
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 08:20 AM
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4. I doubt it. I've had internet trouble since the big storm blew through...
a couple of days ago. Intermittent outages, and lots of static on my phone line.

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Glorfindel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 09:02 AM
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5. Verry interresting....but no internet troubles here (abt 30 miles N)
of Gulfport. I was hard at work, of course, but most of our business is done via the internet, so an outage would have been highly irritating.
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