The owner of the brain dead blog is threatening to post another lie, this one about the dealership I own and operate. The dealership is not a charity, it is a retail sales operation that sells vehicles to the public, wholesale to other dealers directly or through dealer auctions as well as leases built to order communication vehicles, primarily news vans.
Their goal as one regular poster over stated is to "make certain that Murt does not make ANY money at all." which means that it is their intent to drive me into poverty and not be able to make a living by any means.
They want me unemployed, pure and simple.
Their efforts has already cost me money in lost sales as well as the expenses I have already had from countering the vast number of lies coming out of her blog by her and her members.
Their biggest gripe seems to be the so called donations they accuse me of raking in off the members of my chat/broadcast site. Up to today those have been lies.
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AN UPDATE:
One of my biggest critics regarding donations is a moderator of a chat site where, guess what, THEY SEEK DONATONS! They do have the disclaimer that it is to maintain the site (pay expenses) and NOT having to do with the cases they discuss.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
TRUST
One last post on the current path before reaching that turning point.
The one thing I have been repeatadly reminded of is that I trust people too much. I suppose it comes from a generation where someone's word meant something. It meant that a handshake or simple "you have my word" was enough for all parties to keep their agreements.
Trust also meant that when someone sent a Personal Message, it was just that. The cardinal rule of the internet since the on line experience began was that ALL personal messages and e-mails were kept private.
That is no longer the case and has not been for quite some time. This is a generational thing apparently. The standard of behavior often referred to as nettiquite apparently has not taken hold with the new subscribers of the internet.
I experienced this breech of trust, first with the many volunteers who came forward with the standard "I want to be a mod" "can I help?" to which requests I had first turned down.
When I started the broadcast streams on the road, I had not intended to have my own chat. I had arranged to use existing chats on Topix and a number of message sites rather than to run and maintain my own chat site.
When I opened the Ustream chat at the urging of the members back then, I did so with me as the sole moderator. This worked out well until the trolls arrived. One thing led to another and I finally gave in to the flood of offers and brought aboard my first group of moderators.
This was the start of a series of problems of one kind or another with these volunteers as it turns out they either came aboard with the single minded purpose of sabatoging the chat or, not having the kind of leadership skills necessary to operate a chat room properly, made policy and ran the chat according to their personal agendas and personality conflicts with other members.
Trust also proved to be my weakness when it involved the transfer from one server to another when the owners and staff , again, volunteered to be the hosts of the chat and administer both the stream and broadcast sites.
This again proved to be a serious error for it turns out there were a group of individuals who liked nothing to do but ruin someone's hard work for the sake of LULZ.
That trust cost me a lot. It has also taught me that the internet is no longer a gathering place for the enlightened and friendly groups who gather in our virtual rooms and persue our interests.
Instead the internet is nothing more than a toy.A place to read comics, listen to music and watch viral videos.
The internet is a place where someone logs into a chat room as someone they are not.
The internet is a place for pranks and threats and "getting even" for being banned or denial of entry into a room.
The internet is a place where a no to a request or the turning down of an idea leads to cyber stalking and personal smears, again, to get even.
The internet is now a place of virtual vandalism, cyber terrorism and cyber bullying.
Before I go on I must take this time to thank all the GOOD Administrators, and moderators that have assisted me in the operation of the broadcast sites, message sites, and chat sites during the 5 months I have operated them. They volunteer their time and effort for nothing but my thanks and I will always appreciate them.
This then brings me to the close of the post with the one incident that has taught me the final lesson regarding Trust.
The administrators and I had a group private chat session where we discussed certain problems that had been ocuring on the board for about 2 weeks or so during the absense of a key admin.
In that session I made the remark to all that "When push comes to shove, in the end I do not trust completely ANYONE but myself." All the participants of the chat understood full well the meaning behind this statement except one.
As it turns out, that one individual proved to be the one person I could not trust as I learned later on what this individual's true motives and actions were.
So, that last lesson that I have learned is this. "I will never, ever, trust anyone on the internet again."
Now for the turning point that is approaching.
Stay tuned
MURT
The one thing I have been repeatadly reminded of is that I trust people too much. I suppose it comes from a generation where someone's word meant something. It meant that a handshake or simple "you have my word" was enough for all parties to keep their agreements.
Trust also meant that when someone sent a Personal Message, it was just that. The cardinal rule of the internet since the on line experience began was that ALL personal messages and e-mails were kept private.
That is no longer the case and has not been for quite some time. This is a generational thing apparently. The standard of behavior often referred to as nettiquite apparently has not taken hold with the new subscribers of the internet.
I experienced this breech of trust, first with the many volunteers who came forward with the standard "I want to be a mod" "can I help?" to which requests I had first turned down.
When I started the broadcast streams on the road, I had not intended to have my own chat. I had arranged to use existing chats on Topix and a number of message sites rather than to run and maintain my own chat site.
When I opened the Ustream chat at the urging of the members back then, I did so with me as the sole moderator. This worked out well until the trolls arrived. One thing led to another and I finally gave in to the flood of offers and brought aboard my first group of moderators.
This was the start of a series of problems of one kind or another with these volunteers as it turns out they either came aboard with the single minded purpose of sabatoging the chat or, not having the kind of leadership skills necessary to operate a chat room properly, made policy and ran the chat according to their personal agendas and personality conflicts with other members.
Trust also proved to be my weakness when it involved the transfer from one server to another when the owners and staff , again, volunteered to be the hosts of the chat and administer both the stream and broadcast sites.
This again proved to be a serious error for it turns out there were a group of individuals who liked nothing to do but ruin someone's hard work for the sake of LULZ.
That trust cost me a lot. It has also taught me that the internet is no longer a gathering place for the enlightened and friendly groups who gather in our virtual rooms and persue our interests.
Instead the internet is nothing more than a toy.A place to read comics, listen to music and watch viral videos.
The internet is a place where someone logs into a chat room as someone they are not.
The internet is a place for pranks and threats and "getting even" for being banned or denial of entry into a room.
The internet is a place where a no to a request or the turning down of an idea leads to cyber stalking and personal smears, again, to get even.
The internet is now a place of virtual vandalism, cyber terrorism and cyber bullying.
Before I go on I must take this time to thank all the GOOD Administrators, and moderators that have assisted me in the operation of the broadcast sites, message sites, and chat sites during the 5 months I have operated them. They volunteer their time and effort for nothing but my thanks and I will always appreciate them.
This then brings me to the close of the post with the one incident that has taught me the final lesson regarding Trust.
The administrators and I had a group private chat session where we discussed certain problems that had been ocuring on the board for about 2 weeks or so during the absense of a key admin.
In that session I made the remark to all that "When push comes to shove, in the end I do not trust completely ANYONE but myself." All the participants of the chat understood full well the meaning behind this statement except one.
As it turns out, that one individual proved to be the one person I could not trust as I learned later on what this individual's true motives and actions were.
So, that last lesson that I have learned is this. "I will never, ever, trust anyone on the internet again."
Now for the turning point that is approaching.
Stay tuned
MURT
A TURNING POINT
In the last few hours have led to some interesting developments have caused me to decide to take a different direction with the blog. I have decided that some efforts from this time forward that need to be done are going do be done without the need for discussion here.
The blog will move in an entirely different direction that is more in line of the way I wanted it to go back when I started broadcasting.
From now on, all comments have to be in line with the topic of my posts. Any off topic comment will not be published.
Stay tuned
MURT
The blog will move in an entirely different direction that is more in line of the way I wanted it to go back when I started broadcasting.
From now on, all comments have to be in line with the topic of my posts. Any off topic comment will not be published.
Stay tuned
MURT
Benched:
One of the old accusations out there stems from the Memorial Bench project. In a repeat of the same lobbying effort that prevented my billboard project from going through a couple of years ago in regards to the Trenton Ducket case, the same thing happened again.
The town I live near had a program where someone could buy a park bench for $500.00 and have a small brass plaque with three or four lines inscribed on it.
Right after Caylee was found, everyone wanted to have some kind of monument in her memory. Remembering the memorial bench program, I brought it to the attention to the room. Everyone decided that, rather than have me fund the bench on my own, that they wanted to participate.
I first went to the city and talked to the manager of the department that ran the program and discussed the project. He was confident that we could get the bench and even took me down to the park and discussed several areas as to where to place it.
All seemed fine until after the bench was paid for and the time was fast approaching for it to be placed.
There had been a meeting of the committee who oversees the approval of the benches after some people made a number of phone calls to the city protesting the placing of the bench and my sponsership of it.
The committee decided that, in light of this and the fact that there was a lot of negative publicity about the case in general, they were going to deny the placement of the bench with Caylee's name in any variation.
Needless to say the offical I met with was stunned. I was then told that it would take a week or so to get refunded and that the funds would come into a single check to me rather than in the individual payments made by each member who contributed.
After telling the contributers what had transpired, all but one agreed that the funds should go for the search for Haleigh Cummings. After calling the Putnam county Sheriff's office, it was determined that the funds should go to TES as this was the family's wish at that time.
I then went to the vigil tent in Satsuma and personaly made the donation on behalf of the group to a representative of TES.
I was then sent an e-mail followed up by two letters from TES:
The TES representative also went on the blog and posted the following:
The town I live near had a program where someone could buy a park bench for $500.00 and have a small brass plaque with three or four lines inscribed on it.
Right after Caylee was found, everyone wanted to have some kind of monument in her memory. Remembering the memorial bench program, I brought it to the attention to the room. Everyone decided that, rather than have me fund the bench on my own, that they wanted to participate.
I first went to the city and talked to the manager of the department that ran the program and discussed the project. He was confident that we could get the bench and even took me down to the park and discussed several areas as to where to place it.
All seemed fine until after the bench was paid for and the time was fast approaching for it to be placed.
There had been a meeting of the committee who oversees the approval of the benches after some people made a number of phone calls to the city protesting the placing of the bench and my sponsership of it.
The committee decided that, in light of this and the fact that there was a lot of negative publicity about the case in general, they were going to deny the placement of the bench with Caylee's name in any variation.
Needless to say the offical I met with was stunned. I was then told that it would take a week or so to get refunded and that the funds would come into a single check to me rather than in the individual payments made by each member who contributed.
After telling the contributers what had transpired, all but one agreed that the funds should go for the search for Haleigh Cummings. After calling the Putnam county Sheriff's office, it was determined that the funds should go to TES as this was the family's wish at that time.
I then went to the vigil tent in Satsuma and personaly made the donation on behalf of the group to a representative of TES.
I was then sent an e-mail followed up by two letters from TES:
I am the one who personally received a donation check made out to
Texas EquuSearch from Murt on Saturday, Feb. 14th while TES was in
Satsuma, FL searching for Haleigh Cummings. The check was for $500.
Murt made it very clear that the donation was from his group and not
just from himself. Murt has received a letter of thanks from TES on
letterhead regarding the donation. I am sure he would be happy to
share that letter which even includes the check number with any that
request he do so. I believe he could even offer his cancelled check as proof,if need be. I have received his permission to release any/all
information regarding the donation.
Tim Miller has asked me to convey that TES has been putting in 20 hour
days on searches for the past several days and continues to receive
calls for help from around the country. Taking time to resolve issues
such as the one above takes time away from helping families in need.
TES is grateful for all types of support and we ask that all pray for
those missing and their families.
Sincerely,
CT
Texas EquuSearch
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Rather than accept this explenation, the blog members went on not only to accuse me of forging the letter but incurred their wrath on the representative of TES questioning her judgment.
This is by far, a clear demonstration of the TRUE direction of that blog. They are less about the plight of lost children and the violence against them as they are in cyber bullying and cyber terrorism when it comes to those that they either disagree with or dislike.
The incident has left and indealable mark with TES and the staff there who know realize the kind of problems I had while assisting them in Orlando. I received several apologies by senior staff members of TES over the misunderstandings that ocured when they were in Orlando.
They made it clear that I would be welcome with open arms to any TES search in the future.
Monday, April 13, 2009
TO HELL AND BACK
An old pattern is repeating again that I do not quite understand. First I am banned from hell, then let back into hell (even though I did not go there) and then banned again.
I think the gates of hell should be replaced with revolving doors.
The fact the blog owner would go through all of this for an extremely tiney chat site among the tens of thousands of similar sites on the internet speaks for how wierd some people are on the net anymore.
Her members do not fare much better. Her blog numbers are consistantly low ( as measured by the comments section) when she writes articles of a "non-Murt" nature or where her members do not manage to insert a "Murt related" comment in an article that has nothing at all do do with me.
The LP memorial article is a prime example. That entire article and the comments that were added to it were a complete farce and a first rate example of yellow journalism.
This is not the first time that the, "you are banned" trick has been used. She has done this before. The last time this was done was preceded by a rather pecular "This site has been suspended by the host" webpage that went up. As the word spread about this revelation, a good number of pro-Murt posters went over there to see for thenselves.
They soon found out the true purpose of what I call the "suspended by host" webpage.
In a rather odd concidence, within a couple of days, virtualy everyone who viewed that link found themselves getting a "you have been banned" message from the blog owner by means of the same sort of webpage.
Anyone who did not visit the "Suspended by host" page, once it was taken down, was not banned as long as they did not post, or made any favorable posts regarding me.
There seems to be a repeat of this pattern, dispensing with the "suspended by host" webpage or something similar since the blog now seems to be able to read the ip address of anyone even looking around on the site or more likely, another way is being found for the blog owner to obtain ip information of those not welcome to the site for pre-emptive banning.
I can find no other explination how an ip address can be banned if it has never been to the website and the owner of the ip has never been to said website or otherwise been in contact with the blog owner.
Perhaps some hackers have provided the necessary information? It would be nice to know.
I think the gates of hell should be replaced with revolving doors.
The fact the blog owner would go through all of this for an extremely tiney chat site among the tens of thousands of similar sites on the internet speaks for how wierd some people are on the net anymore.
Her members do not fare much better. Her blog numbers are consistantly low ( as measured by the comments section) when she writes articles of a "non-Murt" nature or where her members do not manage to insert a "Murt related" comment in an article that has nothing at all do do with me.
The LP memorial article is a prime example. That entire article and the comments that were added to it were a complete farce and a first rate example of yellow journalism.
This is not the first time that the, "you are banned" trick has been used. She has done this before. The last time this was done was preceded by a rather pecular "This site has been suspended by the host" webpage that went up. As the word spread about this revelation, a good number of pro-Murt posters went over there to see for thenselves.
They soon found out the true purpose of what I call the "suspended by host" webpage.
In a rather odd concidence, within a couple of days, virtualy everyone who viewed that link found themselves getting a "you have been banned" message from the blog owner by means of the same sort of webpage.
Anyone who did not visit the "Suspended by host" page, once it was taken down, was not banned as long as they did not post, or made any favorable posts regarding me.
There seems to be a repeat of this pattern, dispensing with the "suspended by host" webpage or something similar since the blog now seems to be able to read the ip address of anyone even looking around on the site or more likely, another way is being found for the blog owner to obtain ip information of those not welcome to the site for pre-emptive banning.
I can find no other explination how an ip address can be banned if it has never been to the website and the owner of the ip has never been to said website or otherwise been in contact with the blog owner.
Perhaps some hackers have provided the necessary information? It would be nice to know.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
PIGEONS
Well, I seemed to have acquired a new gift, quite by accident. I had some homing pigeons (actually they are carrier pigeons)left here a while back. As with all carrier pigeons, they went home after they were given their messages.
An unexpected thing happened. One of them laid eggs and with the help of a friend, the eggs hatched, the pigeons grew up. My friend, an expert on carrier pigeons, taught me all about them.
We did some test releases and they came back to the roost quite promptly.
Needless to say I was hooked. With my experts help, I have acquired a number of them.
I now give them to those who visit to take back to their place. Since these are actually carrier pigeons, they bring back messages.
In order to avoid messy situations, my expert friend made it so that the pigeons do not lay eggs when they are away from the roost.
I have recieved the most interesting messages when they return.
Well, time to feed the birds.
An unexpected thing happened. One of them laid eggs and with the help of a friend, the eggs hatched, the pigeons grew up. My friend, an expert on carrier pigeons, taught me all about them.
We did some test releases and they came back to the roost quite promptly.
Needless to say I was hooked. With my experts help, I have acquired a number of them.
I now give them to those who visit to take back to their place. Since these are actually carrier pigeons, they bring back messages.
In order to avoid messy situations, my expert friend made it so that the pigeons do not lay eggs when they are away from the roost.
I have recieved the most interesting messages when they return.
Well, time to feed the birds.
IT IS GETTING HOT IN HELL AGAIN
Somebody is running skeered. I wonder why? afraid of unintended consequenses? Oh me oh my. There is a site that supposadly does not ban people who choose to view their site. This even if no comments are posted.
Apparently that is a lie as is all the content there. The interesting thing about all of this is that there is already a private chat and message board where their crimes are planned and their lies told. They should rename that place "The Twilight Zone. I wonder why they are so scared of that they have to lock the outside gate as well. Makes one wonder.
No problem. I have my homing pigeons to keep me busy.
HAPPY EASTER
Apparently that is a lie as is all the content there. The interesting thing about all of this is that there is already a private chat and message board where their crimes are planned and their lies told. They should rename that place "The Twilight Zone. I wonder why they are so scared of that they have to lock the outside gate as well. Makes one wonder.
No problem. I have my homing pigeons to keep me busy.
HAPPY EASTER
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