Yes, my postings have been slow and screwy.

Glad to see LGF isn't affected!

Whew - glad you found out about it! I'm one of those guilty of Paul Revering it out here and sending you an e-mail. Hope all these e-mails and etc. didn't get you po'd or anything.
So far, so good out here at LGF!

Good. I thought my 'puter was screwed up.

cant believe Lgf is still running.
Charles must have paid his cyber bill.

Many blogs are down,
the electrician must be a democrat.

All your websites are belong to us, infidel!

Turnabout is fair play, ain't it?

Just sayin'...

Hmmm- some well-meaning leftoids zapping evil neo-con servers for the greater good of all I'm sure.

JWM

Charles

I can view LGF fine, but when I hit post, the HTTP response hangs. The post goes through, but I have to open another browser tab to see the result.

Anyone else having this problem?

I think you can add Aaron's Rantblog to that list.

Clearly, this is the work of disaffected youths. Nothing to worry about, folks!

Godfrey

Yep. Me too.

Yes, apparently LGF is not completely isolated from the attack.

#5 ibmkeyboard - Hi guy - I think it's started here - when I posted my #3, it didn't show up, instead I got the dreaded "page cannot be found" messge and when I refreshed I got "?"

Jihad Watch is down, too. FFI seems to be up, though. I believe they moved some months ago.

Good - it's not me. I thought this POC was done for - didn't want to go through the hassle of buying a 'puter over the weekend - better things to do.

#9 godfrey

Yes, I am.

Hmmm, cyber-attacks seem to have stepped up of late. First Aaron's Rantblog, tomorrow the Internet? Is this yet another front in the jihad---er, I mean the ongoing struggle of those "youthful" activists to escape their poverty and lack of employment?

(If you say I need a tag for that, I'll scream!)

LGF is fine for me.

HM reporting 94 hosts up 21 down.

Being cyberattacked signals your relevance to the fight. LGF is a high-value target and, indeed, an effective weapon in the GWOT.

Soldier on, General Johnson!

Charles,

It's a little thing, but the number of comments today is stuck at 610. I can see that more comments have come in while the 610 remains constant.

/just can't tell which of my problems are part of AOL dial-up on the mac, or the DoS attack... :-(

world b. free,

Are you still playing basketball? ;-)

Robert Spencer reposted a few days ago a bounty to Islamic hackers who could bring down Jihad Watch. They have repeatedly targeted other anti-Islamic sites, such as the one by Ali Sina, woth DoS attacks.

My site's been down all morning, too. I think the jihadis are so pissed at Aaron that they're trying to take down all of Hosting Matters.

#22 taxfreekiller - Si, Senor!

argumentum ad (hosting)hominem

hmmm perhaps it has to do with the events scheduled on May 1?

Orwellian email from la Malkin:

From: la-voz-de-aztlan-admin@aztlan.net To: la-voz-de-aztlan@aztlan.net Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:27:37 -0700 Subject: [La Voz de Aztlan] URGENT ALERT: From The Revolutionary Council and Provisional Government of Aztlan
Dear La Voz de Aztlan Subscribers:

We have received the following communique from the
Minister of Information of the Nation of Aztlan. We rarely
receive any communiques from the "Revolutionary Council
and Provisional Government of Aztlan" so we must assume
that it is of upmost importance. We urge that you carefully
consider the information that it contains. Please pass this
to others in your network!
_ _ _ _

URGENT ALERT: From The Revolutionary Council and
Provisional Government of Aztlan

April 26, 2006

Estimada Raza de Aztlan and Beyond,

Our Director of Special Intelligence Services has brought
to our attention disturbing information that threatens the
safety of our families. This information requires that we
prepare a defense strategy to protect our communities.

Due to the recent large demonstrations of our people in
major cities in occupied Anahuac, extremist European
invaders are preparing violent actions against us.
They are expected to use physical violence in the upcoming
marches and rallies planned for May 1, 2006 and we must
take steps to protect our families.

The Director of Special Intelligence Services has reliable
information that anti-Mexican forces in Aztlan and in
certain other area of Anahuac, are preparing to utilize
explosives and snipers to kill our people. We urge our
community to arm themselves to protect our families. We
are also urging our soldiers presently serving In Iraq,
Afghanistan and other foreign lands to do everything
possible to return home and fight for your own. The
situation here is critical.

In addition, all political prisoners shall be in constant
alert and ready for action. Also, youth groups in our
barrios shall call truces and direct their energies against
the racist enemy that has vowed to annihilate our families.

Our Prime Minister is instructing every able bodied male to
arm himself to protect the women and children in his home.
We can not depend on local White law enforcement
authorities because in many cases they will join the
criminal elements and participate in the slaughter of our
people. Make sure you have weapons and plenty of
ammunition in your homes at the ready.

Criminal racist elements have already made death threats
against certain "occupation administrators" and they will
not stop at killing our civilians. We hope that the
massacres of Mexicans that the White criminals have vowed
to undertake are just the rantings of cowardly insane minds
but we must take these threats seriously.

Cuauhtli
Minister of Information
Nation of Aztlan
La Voz de Aztlan

Being cyberattacked signals your relevance to the fight. LGF is a high-value target and, indeed, an effective weapon in the GWOT.

Soldier on, General Johnson!

#23 littleoldlady:

Only in my dreams. But I can still be found wearing utterly pimptastic suits and distributing community service awards at Sixers home games... :)

DOS attacks - a percursor to the "day without illegal aliens day" perhaps? Or is it "youth groups" acting vicariously?

OT but I wanted to share this.

This is funny.
This is the trailer for Mel Gibson's new movie Apacalypto.
Watch it until the part with the screaming monkey (baboon, whatever) & pause it.
Use the buttons on the lower right to back it up one frame at a time & you get a surprise.

[Link: www.apple.com...]

Don't you love surprises? I love Mel Gibson.

Not THAT way! Sheesh.

90 up 25 down.

Something weird is going on here as well. I had to enter my username and password to post this. It's usually already pre-populated in the fields. And, Hugh Hewitt is down as well.

#29 amyc
just read that on MM a few moments ago. This definately deserves its own thread.

godfrey,

can view LGF fine, but when I hit post, the HTTP response hangs. The post goes through, but I have to open another browser tab to see the result.

Anyone else having this problem?

Precisely. Preview works fine.

Oh, it needs to be said:

HEY DOS ATTACKERS

ENJOY THE MOMENT

YOU SUCK

YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE

32 ronaldus
from my 29
Also, youth groups in our
barrios shall call truces and direct their energies against
the racist enemy that has vowed to annihilate our families.

DailyKook is still up.

#31 world b. free,

Oh good! I'll be able to recognize you next time I'm at the game.

[p.s. You should ask Dr. J about any specific wardrobe concerns you may have...]

;-)

I know where Anahuac is.

Just East of Houston off I-10. There was a pre-Texas war of Independence incident there involving James B Travis, and an Anglo loyal to Santa Anna, and there are also lots of alligators there.

posting creates an error message but then the post appears anyway

Maybe it's because I spent so much time reading the conspiracy rants at the U93 board yesterday, but when stuff like this happens I always get concerned it's the precursor to a physical attack... designed to keep us from communicating with each other.

#31 world b. free,

Oh good! I'll be able to recognize you next time I'm at the game.

[p.s. You should ask Dr. J about any specific wardrobe concerns you may have...]

;-)

OT but I wanted to share this.

This is funny.
This is the trailer for Mel Gibson's new movie Apacalypto.
Watch it until the part with the screaming monkey (baboon, whatever) & pause it.
Use the buttons on the lower right to back it up one frame at a time & you get a surprise.

[Link: www.apple.com...]

Don't you love surprises? I love Mel Gibson.

Not THAT way! Sheesh.

#29 amyc
I plan on spending as much money as I can on monday to help offset the pro-criminals boycott.

From HM:

The primary source appears to be Saudi Arabia. However, the nature of DOS attacks is that they originate from any number of places, via machines that are zombied, trojaned, or otherwise compromised.

Any word on where the DOS is coming from?

#29 amyc 4/28/2006 08:57AM PDT

hmmm perhaps it has to do with the events scheduled on May 1?

Orwellian email from la Malkin:

Is that for real? Are these asshats really trying to start a Civil War? Wow.

I know where Anahuac is.

Just East of Houston off I-10. There was a pre-Texas war of Independence incident there involving James B Travis, and an Anglo loyal to Santa Anna, and there are also lots of alligators there.

Hell has no fury like a patient person who has finally lost all patience. I'm *pissed* and I'm going to do something about it.

No trouble here, although I did have a problem accessing Power Line earlier.

#45 {BabbaZee}

Posting creates an error message but the post appears anyway - TWICE!

/Sorry about that. Honest! I only clicked "post" once.

#34

That's funny.

Michelle Malkins confirms;

The cyberjihadis who have gone after the Aaron's CC blog reportedly origniate from Saudi Arabia.

Odd things going on here as well, as mentioned. I had to type in my username and password, which are usually pre-populated.

I think LGF is just slow from overflow traffic unable to reach the other sites. Since volume is spiking, LGF is struggling to keep up.

And a quick perusal of the forum proves that yes, the jihadis are pissed enough at Aaron to be trying to take down Hosting Matters.

He wasn't mentioned by name, but we can read between the lines.

it's the Jooos

yeah, I've had some minor problems with connection to the site in the past few days.

{lil'Ol'lady}
You can post twice whenever you like, LOL

#50 Sarah D.

Interersting. What they're saying implies that this isn't a typical zombie attack, but an organized attack from inside of the magic kingdom. That should be easy to block. But it sounds like they have some sort of cluster (a universiyy, maybe), that's busy doing it. Probably not script kiddies. Probably their professors.

OT Humor from Texas

A West Texas cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when
suddenly a brand new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The
driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses
and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you
exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd,will you give me
a calf?"

The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?" The yuppie
parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his
AT&T cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he
calls up
A GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location
which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an
ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digit al photo

in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in
Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot
that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses
a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected excel spreadsheet with email
on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he
Prints out a full color, 150 page report on his Hi-tech,miniaturized HP
Laser Jet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have
exactly 1586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the
cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on
amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the
cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my calf?" The young man thinks about
it for a sec ond and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a consultant for the National Democratic Party." says the
cowboy.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even
though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter
than me you are; and you don't know a %*#@ thing about cows...

Now give me back my dog."

#34, 58

Couldn't view the trailer - what's the surprise?

Chinese bots?

First they came for Pooh's friend Piglet,

then the images of Mohammed,

then the postings of the uber hottie, Michelle Malkin,

and now DOS.

Face it Flounder, we chickenhawk keyboardists just aren't buying what you are selling.

#66 Earth2moonbat

Yes, organized by the sound of it. The target has been hacked twice previously.

Whoever it is, they sure pissed some jihadis off!

realwest hows your body bro?
hope you are feeling better, and I mean that.

Charles has paid the price for a good web site,
and I am thankful. some good people here.

But we have trolls, cyber jerks, and nerds.
Head knockers and jokers.
lol

/sometimes i feel like im watching that movie Patton,
Never know who Charles will kick in the ass next.

/Or Platoon,
somebody gets overrun.
lol

53 Ed. So the Aztlan nutters are talking about going on a racist alligator hunt? That makes as much sense as anything else.

81 up 34 down.

Front page photo in the metro section of todays Dallas Morning News showing a group of Vietnamese UTA students protesting against the school for hanging the Communist Vietnamese flag in their 'Hall of flags'. They are proudly flying American and South Vietnamese flags. You wont see these immigrants and sons and daughters of immigrants pissing on their fellow Americans next monday.

71 Sarah D.

Whoever it is, they sure pissed some jihadis off!

Truth has that effect on some people.

Cyberjihading just isn't the same without some splodeydope action.

What, no martyrs?

#44 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades- Hi Ed - thanks for those links - very informative. As a non-Texan, I always just associated Travis with the Alamo.

#68 BDVM

Don't want to spoil it for everyone else.
Can I e-mail it to you?

Don't think this posted on my first try, presumably due to the hosting problems.

I believe the UN should immediately begin funding Osama bin Laden's islamic caliphate government-in-exile. If the world had a little more sympathy for the plight of his people living in caves being relentlessly hunted by the U.S. military and all that, he would be more likely to cooperate and renounce the use of violence.

//need I say sarc?

CAIR are now in the mix- will march with illegals

In solidarity with immigration activists around the country, the Muslim Public Affairs Council as well as the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Los Angeles (CAIR-LA), the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, the LA Latino Muslim Association, the Muslim American Society-Los Angeles, and the Muslim Students Association - West (MSA West) are calling on American Muslims to participate in a day of action on May 1, 2006. On that day, the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network (MIWON) is holding a march near downtown Los Angeles in support of immigration reform and worker’ rights. MPAC is coordina

It seems Jihad Watch is on that server, too. At least, I can't get it to load this morning.

OT regarding Juan Cole's brave petition in defense of "free speech":

After the spanking he got last night, he has started a new petition at a "liberal" site (surprise) that rigorously excludes anyone trying to subvert the subversives.

Last night I Googled three names at random from among the "serious" signatories and promptly found three moonbats and jihadists of various stripes. It occurs to me that the new petition presents a similar fund of loonies who deserve to have their backgrounds and opinions checked. Since the signatories are obliged to provide names and university affiliations, it is relatively easy to turn up relevant information. But it is a lot of work.

I'm looking for volunteers to help me Google and investigate the signatories. I will then collate the information and post it on my blog, in addition to offering it for publication here and at sites like Frontpage and Dhimmi Watch.

Any Lizards with a little time on their hands are invited to email me by clicking on my nic above and we'll work out how to divide up the labor. I'm thinking we could each take a group of fifty names and proceed from there.

This could make a real contribution to our understanding of exactly who supports Walt and Meersheimer and why.

Charles, if you think this is a worthy effort, I would not be averse to having this be the subject of its own thread.

Golly- I'm glad it's not just me.

Re: 29 amyc

I had been thinking about how if the islamonazis really wanted to cause terror, blowing up a dirty bomb or other WMD in the middle of one of those demonstrations would be a way to go about it. There would be a lot of people to get killed and hurt.

And after reading that post, it seems that it would be a good way to start major rioting and chaos. The aztlan types would blame the gringos (and the Jooos), and start really trying to disrupt society. The islamonazis could agree with them, and "help" them attack the society that "did this terrible crime to them".

And trying to prevent it would be very hard with so many people around.

I'm glad there's no demonstration in Boston on Monday.

79 up 36 down.

Fascinating in a way.

I've figured it out while getting lunch at the Chik-Fil-A. (BTW, Haltom Choir is in the house- wonder if they are from Haltom City, way up there near FTW)

Let Hosting Matters take a lesson from the UN. Treat Aaron's blog like it is Israel, and just jettison it to the wolves.

It'll be at least a week before the cyber-jihadis decide to attack another anti-idiotarian website.

67 Sol Roth 4/28/2006 09:13AM PDT

THAT WAS GREAT.
LOL

...yeah...we're at war...go figure...

WEll, gotta go run lotsa errands...and had to add "buy ammo" to the list. Bye everybody!

CAIR are now in the mix- will march with illegals

In solidarity with immigration activists around the country, the Muslim Public Affairs Council as well as the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Los Angeles (CAIR-LA), the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, the LA Latino Muslim Association, the Muslim American Society-Los Angeles, and the Muslim Students Association - West (MSA West) are calling on American Muslims to participate in a day of action on May 1, 2006. On that day, the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network (MIWON) is holding a march near downtown Los Angeles in support of immigration reform and worker’ rights. MPAC is coordina

It seems Jihad Watch is on that server, too. At least, I can't get it to load this morning.

OT regarding Juan Cole's brave petition in defense of "free speech":

After the spanking he got last night, he has started a new petition at a "liberal" site (surprise) that rigorously excludes anyone trying to subvert the subversives.

Last night I Googled three names at random from among the "serious" signatories and promptly found three moonbats and jihadists of various stripes. It occurs to me that the new petition presents a similar fund of loonies who deserve to have their backgrounds and opinions checked. Since the signatories are obliged to provide names and university affiliations, it is relatively easy to turn up relevant information. But it is a lot of work.

I'm looking for volunteers to help me Google and investigate the signatories. I will then collate the information and post it on my blog, in addition to offering it for publication here and at sites like Frontpage and Dhimmi Watch.

Any Lizards with a little time on their hands are invited to email me by clicking on my nic above and we'll work out how to divide up the labor. I'm thinking we could each take a group of fifty names and proceed from there.

This could make a real contribution to our understanding of exactly who supports Walt and Meersheimer and why.

Charles, if you think this is a worthy effort, I would not be averse to having this be the subject of its own thread.

Cato
I am trying to get to your e-mail but keep getting a ? instead, no e-mail address. I'll keep trying.

#84 Kosh's Shadow
Spend some money on Monday anyway. Show the ungrateful ones and their MSM supporters that their impact is minimal and restricted to mainly the border states.

The attack reportedly originates in Saudi Arabia.

Man, isn't that the story of our times?

Hey Babba,
I have missed you. It is very nice to have you back again. I hope you are feeling better!

#90 Fjordman, you would think eventually President Bush would begin to wonder about all his bed-fellows for amnesty.

The attack reportedly originates in Saudi Arabia.

Our friends the Suadis? No way!

#95 saylorfam
Hey there old friend! I am OK, thanks - I hope you and your family are well too!

Weird. Had to populate my username and password. That doesn't usually happen, so it must be part of the hack. Anyway, I plan on spending the day Monday hitting the used book stores on Telegraph in Berkeley. Good excuse to spend money and be visibly NOT supporting the boycott. See ya around campus.

type in your comment and then hit preview,
or post this comment.
then hit reload,
goes a little faster.

Saudis

PIMF

keyboardicus maximus!

The problem seems to be gone now, posting fine.

Seems to be working normally now.

Hello Saudi Arabia!

hey, something has been bugging me lately...

isn't it a bit Idolatrous to name the land of Mecca and Medina after a family, the Saud family?

How Idolatrous.

What Idolators those Arab Muslims are.

Storm Prediction Center believes surface based tornadic supercells likely to develop next 90 minutes along dryline from just East of Lubbock to near San Angelo.

Tornado Watch likely before 1 pm CDT

Satellite loop.

OT:

A posting from Atzlan went out. Its a little disturbing that they seem to have given themselves weird KKK/military style titles. I cant believe this group gets no attention in the MSM.

From: la-voz-de-aztlan-admin@aztlan.net To: la-voz-de-aztlan@aztlan.net Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:27:37 -0700 Subject: [La Voz de Aztlan] URGENT ALERT: From The Revolutionary Council and Provisional Government of Aztlan
Dear La Voz de Aztlan Subscribers:

We have received the following communique from the
Minister of Information of the Nation of Aztlan. We rarely
receive any communiques from the "Revolutionary Council
and Provisional Government of Aztlan" so we must assume
that it is of upmost importance. We urge that you carefully
consider the information that it contains. Please pass this
to others in your network!
_ _ _ _

URGENT ALERT: From The Revolutionary Council and
Provisional Government of Aztlan

April 26, 2006

Estimada Raza de Aztlan and Beyond,

Our Director of Special Intelligence Services has brought
to our attention disturbing information that threatens the
safety of our families. This information requires that we
prepare a defense strategy to protect our communities.

Due to the recent large demonstrations of our people in
major cities in occupied Anahuac, extremist European
invaders are preparing violent actions against us.
They are expected to use physical violence in the upcoming
marches and rallies planned for May 1, 2006 and we must
take steps to protect our families.

The Director of Special Intelligence Services has reliable
information that anti-Mexican forces in Aztlan and in
certain other area of Anahuac, are preparing to utilize
explosives and snipers to kill our people. We urge our
community to arm themselves to protect our families. We
are also urging our soldiers presently serving In Iraq,
Afghanistan and other foreign lands to do everything
possible to return home and fight for your own. The
situation here is critical.

In addition, all political prisoners shall be in constant
alert and ready for action. Also, youth groups in our
barrios shall call truces and direct their energies against
the racist enemy that has vowed to annihilate our families.

Our Prime Minister is instructing every able bodied male to
arm himself to protect the women and children in his home.
We can not depend on local White law enforcement
authorities because in many cases they will join the
criminal elements and participate in the slaughter of our
people. Make sure you have weapons and plenty of
ammunition in your homes at the ready.

Criminal racist elements have already made death threats
against certain "occupation administrators" and they will
not stop at killing our civilians. We hope that the
massacres of Mexicans that the White criminals have vowed
to undertake are just the rantings of cowardly insane minds
but we must take these threats seriously.

Cuauhtli
Minister of Information
Nation of Aztlan
La Voz de Aztlan

Hosting Matters ROCKS!

Charles, will you please pass on our sincere appreciation to HM for all the crap they put with?

UPDATE at 4/28/06 9:27:25 am:
The attack reportedly originates in Saudi Arabia.

Probably a bored twelve year old named "Mohammed Aboo Al Jihad Jr." loose in the palace media room.

.

The attack reportedly originates in Saudi Arabia.

A group of Amish tourists playing childish games with their powerful workstations, I'm sure.

/Oh, you don't know about Amish tourists and hackers !? Shame on you.

At least now that the DOS source has been located, we can rest assured the Saudis will investigate and prosecute those responsible.

Hey, who's laughing?

Babbazee baby,

keyboardcus dug this out of moth balls just for you.
lol

[Link: z.about.com...]

Wonder if its this arsehat who did it. My colleague tracked his sorry arse down to Oman. He was the hacker who took down Aaron.

#34 - Thats pretty good. Mel's a nut.

Keyboardicus, Thanks!

I dig this one out just for you too:
(personally I need a little jihadi break, LOL)

www.david.artoo.net/vikings/

The attack reportedly originates in Saudi Arabia.

It may be the same character that attacked Aaron's site.

Babbazee,

keyboardcus in his depends.

[Link: pages.prodigy.net...]

I AM KEYBOARDICUS!

I just got on to CQ just fine, but Powerline wasn't available. And my LGF connection is unhindered.

The attack reportedly originates in Saudi Arabia.

Of course, I'm sure the Saudi authorities are tracking down these criminals as we speak and will give them very harsh sentences.

got milk

I'll look up when and where its showing then send you an email

Sol Roth,
That was excellent and so appropriate for todays DNC.

NO,
I AM.

BabbaZee et al.,

Try now. I may have mistyped my email address.

It's the Saudis responding to the unfair treatment of their subjects in United 93 and the fact the director didn't get their side of the story.

It's Keith Uhlich's fault.

#34 Cad Daddy

Could you tell me what it does. It will not play for me. Tahnk you in advance.

I highly recommend Hosting Matters -- I use them to host my site. Their support people are excellent, and any problems have always been fixed asap.

for a group of people who still wipe their butt with their left hand and carry out 'justice' with a scimitar...

they sure spend alot of time doing pansy things like DoS attacks.

back to the DDT for me.

I think this potentially may have somethine to do with me, unfortunately. In fact, just two days ago I warned Hosting Matters about Saudi Arabian hackers who were trying to take down my site.

As you may know, a list of 12 Web sites were banned in Pakistan after they started appearing on Muslim hacker forums. I was one of the 12, and two of my mirror sites were two more of them, and all the rest were sites that appeared on my "Links" page at the Mohammed Image Archive (MIA). I got a lot of emails from people saying that the list was probably dervied from my site.

Then other people -- such as Aaron's Rantblog -- who also were hosting MIA mirror sites also got apparently added to the "list" on the hacker forums. Many of them came under attack. Aaron got taken down by Saudi hackers, as did another mirror site, and one or two others on the list. I was never hacked, but I did suffer two major DDOS attacks, one of which came out of Turkey (which Hosting Matters defeated by simply blocking the entire nation from accessing my site). I was also subsequently moved by HM to outside servers, to isolate me, handle the traffic, and protect the rest of their sites.

I occasionally get emails from people that were one the List of 12 saying they had to deal with this or that hack attack, often specifically out of Saudi Arabia.

Now this.

I can't guarantee this current attack has something to do with this whole MIA situation, but I wouldn't be surprised. Though it seems a rather over-the-top response to take down the whole company because of one site. They probably discovered the whole stable of the kind of sites Hosting Matters hosts, and felt they had hit the jackpot.

If so: I apologize for causing trouble!

We need to start encouraging the formation of patriotic hacker teams to start taking down Radical Islamic Sites.

#130 zombie

You didn't start the fire.

Tornado Watch 2006-256 includes Electra, Kamay and Holliday!

While never drunk in Wichita County, I have consumed a few beers.

Further South and East, towards I-10 corridor of South Central Texas, no watches in effect yet, but

A COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM W CNTRL KS SWWD THROUGH THE OK AND TX PANHANDLES. A DRY LINE/PACIFIC FRONT EXTENDS FROM SWRN TX NEAR FORT STOCKTON NWD INTO THE WRN TX PANHANDLE WHERE IT INTERSECTS THE SEWD ADVANCING COLD FRONT. FARTHER S...A WARM FRONT EXTENDS ACROSS SRN TX FROM NEAR HOUSTON WWD INTO THE RIO GRANDE AREA.

A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET WILL PERSIST ACROSS CNTRL TX AND MAINTAIN ISENTROPIC LIFT ALONG AND N OF E-W BOUNDARY ACROSS S CNTRL TX. ELEVATED STORMS ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING FROM S CNTRL THROUGH N TX WITHIN THIS WARM ADVECTION REGIME. AS LOW LEVEL DEWPOINTS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NWD AND AS THE BOUNDARY LAYER WARMS...THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR SOME OF THESE STORMS TO BECOME CLOSER TO SURFACE BASED. LOW LEVEL HODOGRAPHS ARE ENHANCED BY VEERING BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW IN VICINITY OF THE WARM FRONT ACROSS S CNTRL TX...AND WOULD ENHANCE THE THREAT FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES IF STORMS MANAGE TO BECOME ROOTED NEAR THE SURFACE.

OK, CAPE not super manly at College Station (what is?), but forecast shear profiles would support tornadic supercells despite less than optimum instability.

#29 amyc

How about that lanquage? Mao on steroids. I'm sure Bush has asked the FBI to investigate. Right.

#72 ibmkeyboard - Hey bro' thanks for asking; my body is doing "ok" but my mind is full of current day demons!
I've tried to e-mail you a couple of times but don't ever seem to get through - if you could shoot one to me, just saying hi! I could at least try replying to you!

Loved Patton, hated Platoon,btw!

If so: I apologize for causing trouble!

Zombie - I think many of us would rather have you keep on with what you have been doing / are doing.

Of course, Christians around the world were rioting, demonstrating, and issue fatwas for this...

#127 EmeraldLakeEyes

Check your e-mail.

I say this is all the fault of (pick one):

Bush

Chenney

Rove

Tony Snow

Oil Companies

#138 3 wood

You forgot:

John Maynard Keyes

Attack seems to be directed at Aaron specifically, according to this HM mod.

The target of this attack is not a high profile site, is not very well known outside of their own little circle, and otherwise is unremarkable. However, they've managed to irritate someone badly enough to have their site hacked twice and now they've generate this.

Unless there is another non- high profile site known only to his "little circle" that managed to get hacked twice by Saudis.

My site has been down all morning. I think when it comes back up I'll have to put a nice Clobberin' Time graphic up and a few more pictures of Ho-mommed.

#126 American Infidel

No, they will be re-educated in the 'moderate' version of islam...

"Re-educated", hell, they'll be declared jihadi heroes and given a fleet of camels. They're unofficial Wahhabist terrorist agents.

#130 zombie - You are not, in any way, shape or form, to blame for this. There are some (apparently computer talented) nasty MoFo's out there and THEY are responsible, not you. Keep up the fight and never let the bastards get ya down.

Whoa - my last post went through as normal! Maybe HM has or is getting a handle on this DOS.

#139 Obi-wan

Boy, you got that right, Obi-Wan. Talk about somebody who lived by "the force"...

Aaron has been in the habit of posting some hilarious---and, of course, totally fatwa worthy, pictures of Mohammed; Mohammed dancing around as Spider Man, Mohammed as part of the Village People, Mohammed doing various things with pigs.

I admire his spirit, and his refusal to let them shut him down.

138 3 wood

I say this is all the fault of (pick one):

You missed it - the JOOOS!

Everything bad is our fault, right? Just by existing.

Zombie:

This is apparently part of the cost of being an anti-jihad Crusader. I don't think anyone will be blaming you. It is the vandals themselves, after all, who are doing the damage.

#144 Lazarus

Americans have woefully short memmories.

Cato
Still getting a ? - will keep trying

I imagine impotent little men, who want to kill us, but there are no immediate targets in front of them, so they settle for quieting us, but have only small temporary successes at best.

Captain Ahabs with only knitting needles.

From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

#140 a4g
Attack seems to be directed at Aaron specifically, according to this HM mod.

As Aaron once told me himself, his trouble started when he put up a mirror site of my Mohammed Image Archive. That's what originally got him noticed by the Saudis -- and then they probably saw the rest of his site and decided it was time to take him down.

This is exactly why I set up all those mirror sites to begin with -- to spread the Archive far and wide, so that the images could never be taken offline, even if they attacked one or two sites.

Bwahahahahaha!

Zombietime: I don't post often, either here or at your site, although I visit regularly. We know who to blame for this and it isn't you. Power be with you and HM in your continuing fight against jerks who want to take away our "inalienable rights". And thanks to both you and CJ (not to mention jihad watch) for spearheading the intellectual fight against the jihadists.

a-ha!

That's why I ws having trouble posting . I also could not access vodkapundit and istapundit.

I also can't type today - and it's all thier fault!

#137 Cad Daddy

Thank You. Spelled correctly this time.

#106 dll2000

OT---What's also worriesome about this is that if somebody does get shot at, or a bomb goes off, it might set off wide-scale rioting, if not a low-scale war, as the warriors of Aztlan seek to avenge their "honor", and defend themeselves.

(I honestly wouldn't put it past one of these fanatics to start it themselves, then put all the blame on the gringo "racists"; and, of course, CAIR will be on the side of "Aztlan").

#130 zombie

Zombie, my friend, this is not your fault! It's been coming for a long time. What seems to have set off the latest burst of Islamic rage is the whole Mo-toons thing; you published a gallery of Mohammed pictures, and Aaron goes out of his way to be rankly, obcenely (and hilariously) offensive. It's about them, and weird religous sensibilities, and their paranoia about anybody insulting their beloved prophet. Not you, not Aaron, not any of us.

What's more, you and Aaron were right to stick up for freedom of speech, and those who wanted to back down, quavering weasel words about "Respecting other religions" and "Not offending ethnic groups" were wrong!

Updating my list at #138:

I say this is all the fault of (pick one):

Bush

Chenney

Rove

Tony Snow

Oil Companies

I add:

John Manard Keynes (thanks to Obi-Wan)

The Jooo's (thanks to Koch's Shadow)

Zombie (thanks to Zombie)

Lance (he lives to oppress)

NY Yankees (the evil empire)

There. I think that about covers it.

Zombie
No apology needed. It just means that the
words you are speaking are being heard and
that is a good thing.

OT

Article on Todd Beamer's Chicago connections and whether they plan to see "United 93" Includes interview with Lisa Jefferson, the Verizon phone operator who talked w/Beamer.

Film reviewer Roger Ebert gives "United 93" four stars

It is not too soon for "United 93," because it is not a film that knows any time has passed since 9/11. The entire story, every detail, is told in the present tense. We know what they know when they know it, and nothing else. Nothing about Al Qaeda, nothing about Osama bin Laden, nothing about Afghanistan or Iraq, only events as they unfold. This is a masterful and heartbreaking film, and it does honor to the memory of the victims.

#140 a4g

a4g -- on the Hosting Matters forum link you provided, the very next sentence says:

So, as with anything that negatively affects every other client, we make adjustments. In this case, it means sending them out of the network so as not to impact anyone else

That's exactly what they did with zombietime recently -- they "sent me out of the network" (moved my site to servers not actually owned by HM) to "protect" all their other sites from the DOS and traffic issues I was causing.

Looks like Aaron will be joining me in the Land of the Banished Hack Victims!

#157 me

That should be Kosh's Shadow and John Maynard Keynes. It's hard to eat lunch and type at the same time.

160 zombie

Didn't they do that with LGF about a year ago?

#151 Zombie

Well, if it started with you-- I guess it's time I updated my blogroll to make sure there's a link to Zombietime, too.

The longer my site stays down, the more I want to offend them.

#148 Obi-wan

Americans have woefully short memmories.

Yep, and a woeful indifference to the real life consequences of disastrous economic theories.

According to Hosting Matters... it seems my blog may be thrown to the wolves:
[Link: forums.hostmatters.com...]

I hope I misunderstand and I hope other HM users wouldn't allow it.

#163 American Infidel

:(

One of the impacted sites - Radioblogger - has the transcript of yesterday's Hugh Hewitt interview with VDH.

Interesting info re: VDH and his emergency surgery in Libya for a burst appendix.

If I'm simply being moved "off networ" and not removed from HM, that's reasonable.

The attack reportedly originates in Saudi Arabia.

Gee, there's a shock. :-(

#167 American Infidel

It's on Michelle Malkin's site or HotAir.

BabbaZee:

It should be working, I tested it myself. Maybe LGF is still having problems.

I'd post my email here, but Zombie's and others' experiences have taught me to be extra cautious.

#160 Zombie --

Try visiting aaron -- you get a "connection refused" instead of the "timeout" for the other blogs that are down.

So, indeed, he appears to be joining the ranks in the LotBHV.

#48 CAD Daddy

Don't you love surprises? I love Mel Gibson

How in the world did you find that?!?
Mel looks like the Ted Kazinski.

#171 aaron

From my reading, I think they're just trying to isolate your site to bring the rest of the network up.

They're not releasing your site info (despite being asked by other site owners), so I don't think they're throwing you to the wolves.

#168 aaron's rantblog

Recovery on all segments except that target segment is complete. The target of the attack will not be brought back online and will be removed from the main network in the event they are the target of future attacks, so as not to negatively impact other clients.

WTF? Does that mean what it seems to mean?

I just looked at my site's bandwidth graph, and sure enough, there's about a two hour hole (10:30 - 12:30 AM Eastern time) where there was little or no traffic. My site is on HM but has nothing to do with blogging or politics.

#168 aaron's rantblog
According to Hosting Matters... it seems my blog may be thrown to the wolves:
[Link: forums.hostma...]
I hope I misunderstand and I hope other HM users wouldn't allow it.

No no, Aaron, it's a good thing! Don't freak out or get Annete pissed off. The exact same thing happened to me and it turned out for the best.

When Saudi hackers and Turkish hackers were attacking my site (in Feb), it was overwhelming ALL of HM's other sites, so a few months ago they moved me to an "outside server" just as they are going to do you now. It's like getting your own private little kingdom!

The fact that I am now hosted on (an array of) outside servers is exactly why I haven't suffered any more attacks.

It seems like banishment, but in the end it's actually a good thing.

Welcome to the club!

#179 American Infidel

WE WILL WIN ! ! !

Probably, but I want to know what "win" means, when that will be, and what the cost will be. If we fought this war properly, I would know the answers: the end of all terrorist states and peace for America; tomorrow; and the few million it would cost to rain nukes on the Middle East.

#183 Lazarus

And I forgot to add, the cost includes no American dead.

#171 aaron's rantblog
If I'm simply being moved "off networ" and not removed from HM, that's reasonable.

Yes, what they do is contract to have certain "troublemaker" sites hosted on servers that are not owned by HM -- in fact, I think they're not even in Florida.

HM does it so that, if you or I get DDOS'ed again, it would not affect the rest of their clients.

But the practical result from our end is that our sites run more smoothly and never get overwhelmed (at least that's been my experience). In Feb I was knocked offline twice by DDOSes, but since then I have weathered every attack effortlessly.

Zombie, I hope you're right. One of the forum messages was more hopeful than the other.

If they're simply moving me to a the web equivalent of Dick Cheney's "undisclosed secure location", I can't ask for more than that.

#177 a4g
#178 NuclearTinkerbell

It's going to be OK -- the transition to the new servers usually takes about 12 hours at least. During the interim, Aaron's site will be inaccessible.

Aaron, you should be getting an email from HM soon giving your the new ftp connect info for the new server(s). If you're like me, you may have to "double-upload" because your site will be mirrored across two (or more) non-synced servers, to handle future attacks.

Look at the bright side: "Aaron's cc" is now a legendary blog, with bragging rights to being on the cutting edge of the Cyber-Crusade!

When the Saudis target you specifically, it means you've got their number.

As has been argued ad nauseum on this site:

The left and the islamofascists, if not DIRECTLY allied with eachother (even that is arguable), are certainly two peas in the same ideological pod.

And I'd also like to applaud Annette and the whole Hosting Matters crew for being so understanding on this issue: they go the extra mile to help out anti-idiotarian sites (like LGF, Aaron's cc, and zombietime) cope with Islamofascists. I could easily imagine other hosting companies losing patience with sites like ours, and giving us the boot for causing more trouble than we're worth. But HM fights the good fight.

If anyone out there is thinking of starting up a new political site, definitely give HM a try -- and they have some pretty inexpensive deals, too!

#170 Athos

WOW! Unbelieveable story from VDH. I'm going to try and send a get well e-mail on his site.

#189 zombie

If that's the same Annette I've dealt with, I agree, she's great. As are all the HM support people.

Zombie, thanks for your play-by-play and hand-holding through this process. I was worried and it looks like I'll be treated well by HM in the end. (Count on my treating my RoP friends well "in the end", too.)

Zombie, I remember the Turks, too. They weren't thrilled with my RoP designs in my CafePress shop.

I wonder why.

#194 aaron's rantblog 4/28/2006 11:23AM PDT

Zombie, I remember the Turks, too. They weren't thrilled with my RoP designs in my CafePress shop.

Hey, I like those! I think I'll add a link to some of those designs on my links page.

Hope it brings some customers your way!

#191 American Infidel

We shall WIN in about 30-35 yrs, death toll?!?

The peeps that survive will be wishing that the death toll was only WW1, WW2 and the 150 million or so deaths that communism is responsible for (at last guestimate that is)...

Yeah, that's not what I call "winning". More like "surviving". And I won't be one of the survivors, because if our leaders sit on their hands and let 150 million Americans die, my head will explode.

#194 aaron's rantblog

Dude, those are awesome. Totally, totally awesome!

originates is Saudi Arabia

Let's see if we can find out the organization. Bet it's from a Riyadh-based university.

If/when HM digs me out of this, I'll be singing their praises for a LONG time.

It's because they hosted LGF and their heroic work on his behalf that I chose them, assuming they'd be more familiar/empathetic with the kind of stuff he faced/faces.

I'd be sweet if the affected big dog blogs on HM made a point of blogrolling Zombie and me, on principle, so as not to tolerate similar attacks to bloggers sharing their host.

Seems that The Corner just picked up the story.

I'll be heavily promoting Captains' Quarters's 101st Fighting Keyboardists! upon my return. I think I've earned a promotion in rank, there.

#157 3 wood

Just a minor note: someone who reflexively blames Bush & Cheney is unlikely to blame Keynes. Milton Friedman, sure, but not Keynes.

Captain's Quarters is back up.

#198 sms111

See my #66. Beat you to it.

#210 Mergovin

Good point. However, in recent years even the LLL have started to recognize that Keynesian was not all it was advertised to be. Take a look at any new MacroEcon text book and you will notice the Keynes is mentioned but is not the be all and end all of fiscal policy theory anymore, like it used to be 30 years ago. Interesting change in the last 10 years or so.

I tried to get through to Cato the Elder. Was not able to. I bought the David Horowitz book The Professors, so I do have an easy reference. I will try to contact him later.

I'm sorry folks are having trouble contacting me (BabbaZee, Ziggy'sGrammy)! I've emailed Charles to ask him for help.

#1 Chicken Kiev

Yes, my postings have been slow and screwy.

No change there then.

That explains why all of my posts have appeared with a mysterious frowny face at the end. :-(

Dangit. Michelle is reporting that most sites are back up but Counterterrorism Blog is not responding and thats part of my daily "read file". Building networks resistant to this sort of thing is what I do. It isn't hard but it isn't cheap either. Time for the hosting providers to harden their stuff up if we are going to start engaging in information wars. Having a robust blogosphere is in the interest of everyone on both sides of issues.

Is powerline still down for anyone else?

I can get to Power Line now.

Michelle said my blog was up. News to me.

Cato I'll check back on it, thanks

Charles,

Because you recommended HostingMatters, I chose them for my hosting solution about 1 year ago. Service on the whole has been stellar.

Today our multiple domains are *completely* knocked out. Zippo since about 11 this morning. Very very frustrating, but not their fault.

These DoS attacks are still the best way to bring down a web site, because it is very difficult to deal with them in an efficient manner (if I understand correctly). I thought I remember that it was possible to configure routers to reject multiple consecutive network requests if they are performed too quickly. I guess HM doesn't use that or yields too many false-positives. At this time HM is changing *all* IP's on the affected machines for domains that HM manages.

Not surprising this comes from Saudi Arabia. Apparently they have script kiddies there too.

*^%^#$*@#^@#

Powerline remains down. You get a Cpanel page when you go there..."no website configured at this address" message.

I've been able to get to powerline for quite some time.

Try this link:

Powerline

Right, [Link: powerlineblog.com...] works, add the [Link: WWW...] it and it doesn't at this time. My link was pointing to [Link: www.powerlineblog.com...]

Do unto others as you have had done unto you, start ddosing the SA sites!

i'm on hold on hugh hewitt...

The good news is that our domains are now attached to new IP's. The bad news is that our web sites are still down.

Hewitt says now that HM is suffering another attack. Instapundit, Hewitt, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler are all down. Probably the same list as posted on Michelle Malkin.

Looks like there could be another round of attacks are underway - many of the same sites down earlier appear back down again.

Big Lizards
Captain's Quarters
Hugh Hewitt

etc

Idiots.

Like they're going to shut any of us up by doing this.

Annette at HM confirms that round 2 of the DOS attack is underway.

#222 Athos, at 7:05pm central, H. Hewitt announced (on his radio show) another attack was just starting.

Red

Our sites are back down.

I'll confirm. My work site is hosted on HM - and we are down. It's affecting all sites hosted on HM - except those, like LGF that were moved to a separate network. Looks like there may have been more than one target on the initial round.

HM is on it, as usual. They have my sympathy - DDoS is NOT easy to deal with.

It some sense it is a mistake for so many "conserva-blogs" to all use the same hosting company, even though HM is truly excellent. A determined DoS can target, in one fell swoop, a good chunk of the consevative bloggers. It might make some sense to diversify. Not every blogger can afford a dedicated server that's isolated from the rest of the bunch.

Is Jihadwatch down too or is it just my computer?

it's down too, can't they arrest the guy who offered the bounty? That's like conspiracy to commit, and his actions could have very well promted the attack. I hope they watch his bank records, and arrest him when/if he pays if not before he does! He offerred some1 money to commit a crime.

Red

#225 Fiery Red XIII

at 7:05pm central, H. Hewitt announced (on his radio show) another attack was just starting.

Hadn't heard that - I was just trying to catch up on the reading I missed earlier in the day.

"An 'appy day with Ghazis on the rush
Will last an 'ealthy network for a year."