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Take a Day off from Free Republic
Vanity
Posted on 10/15/2008 9:28:46 AM PDT by SantaLuz
Here's a thought. Take a day off from Free Republic in the next couple of weeks and spend it posting comments and replys on the MSM web-sites. I'd recommend the TV and newspaper sites that you think most independents will read.
I try to take a little time out every day to leave a couple posts with links to stories the MSM refuses to cover.
Anyway a lot-of-little goes a long way.
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: mccain; obama; vanity; vanityvanityvanity; yayanothervanity; yetanothervanity
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:28:46 AM PDT
by
SantaLuz
To: SantaLuz
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:31:22 AM PDT
by
Thane_Banquo
("They aren't people! They're the ACLU!" - General Patton in An American Carol)
To: SantaLuz
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:32:32 AM PDT
by
y6162
(uot)
To: SantaLuz
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:32:45 AM PDT
by
don-o
(My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on October 20)
To: SantaLuz
This is a very good idea.
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:33:36 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(It's 'We the People', not 'We the Media')
To: SantaLuz
how about a National Day of Not Posting Unsourced Vanities in the News Forum? Yeah, that would be cool.
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:33:40 AM PDT
by
Doohickey
(The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be)
To: SantaLuz
No thanks, I took Monday off - didn’t view or post and felt empty and out of touch with my peeps!
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:33:46 AM PDT
by
Cyclone59
(It is amazing how people are comforted by percentages)
To: SantaLuz
No mater how polite I am, I keep getting banned by my local newspaper’s blogsite, simply because they don’t like Republican or Conservative views about much of anything.
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:34:21 AM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts.....)
To: SantaLuz
how about both! a day without FR is a day not well spent (IMHO)
To: SantaLuz
Take a day off fro FR? What are you? A DU mole?
To: SantaLuz
What? WHAT? *shaking* A whole DAY off from Free Republic?
Do they offer a rehab for addicted posters? I need to look into that.
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:35:35 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
To: SantaLuz
I’m glad you brought this up.
There needs to be an active, everyday campaign to digg articles. Polls seem to be the big thing, but if you ever visit digg.com and look at what that generation is reading, they are all anti-conservative-republican-McCain. These are the articles that mold the minds of that very large audience(mainly younger). If FR got behind and actively dugg conservative articles, then they would have to read.
www.digg.com if you’ve never visited. It’s very big and widespread on the net.
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:36:14 AM PDT
by
Doug TX
To: SantaLuz
That's easy for you to say.
You obviously don't go into withdrawals, and get the shakes and DTs, and see pink elephants (I think these might be the 'Log Cabin Republicans), when you try to kick the Free Republic addiction...
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:36:23 AM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: SantaLuz
I post at a variety of sites. Volokh and Patterico are fun, and for a lefty point of view, Balkinize. I've also been known to post at moonbat left sites, but usually limit my comments to factual or procedural points.
I managed to end up in a non-public dialog with a well-known AP reporter as a result of my posts at Volokh - the reporter made contact with me.
But yeah, it's good to scout around so as to not depend on any single source, and to stifle the natural tendency toward group-think.
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:41:12 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: SantaLuz
DieHard the Hunter is mighty in battle over on this NZ-based MSM blog:
DieHard in Action...
Even tho' posting under a nom-de-guerre, you should easily be able to spot his razor wit and sniper-accurate cunning, as he mows down all Obamanites before him...
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:41:37 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
To: SantaLuz
I think the better approach is to do both. Come to FR and get the facts than post them to tick off the MSM.
To: SantaLuz
posting to lefties is like playing tennis against a wall- no matter how good you hit the ball, the wall, expending no intelligence or energy whatsoever, just bounces it back to you
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:42:45 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
--
Come to FR and get the facts ... --
But be sure to verify them independently (dig deeper than the source post material), to make sure they really are facts, rather than half-fact, false, or some other form of misrepresentation.
Lost credibility is hard to recover.
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:45:32 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: SantaLuz
Start slow is my advice. Take ten minutes off the first day, 20 minutes the second. Work your way up to a whole day off. You try that right away and your head will explode like mine did.
I got better...
To: All
Here's a thought.
If you are making negative posts about McCain or the election, take the next month off of Free Republic.
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:46:30 AM PDT
by
Vision
("Test everything. Hold on to the Good." 1 Thessalonians 5:21)
To: Doohickey
how about a National Day of Not Posting Unsourced Vanities in the News Forum? Yeah, that would be cool. BUMP!
To: SantaLuz
0ZONE ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
10/15/2008 9:50:19 AM PDT
by
lionheart 247365
((Socialism . . . the catalyst of mediocrity))
To: SantaLuz
To: SantaLuz
"Take a day off from Free Republic"Never!!
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posted on
10/15/2008 10:00:40 AM PDT
by
KoRn
(Barack Obama Must Be Stopped!!!)
To: Cyclone59
No thanks, I took Monday off - didn’t view or post and felt empty and out of touch with my p FReeps!There, fixed it! ;-)
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posted on
10/15/2008 10:02:36 AM PDT
by
Hoffer Rand
(There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
To: autumnraine
Do they offer a rehab for addicted posters? I need to look into that. I can quit any time I want.
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posted on
10/15/2008 10:02:54 AM PDT
by
freespirited
(We have met the enemy, and he is the MSM.)
To: autumnraine
Do they offer a rehab for addicted posters? I need to look into that.FR rehab would probably be fun. We'd all get to meet. Instead of live threads, we'd get to hang out.
But I guess that wouldn't really be rehabbing us. I clearly have not thought this through enough.
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posted on
10/15/2008 10:06:11 AM PDT
by
retrokitten
(We make us laugh- silent_jonny)
To: SantaLuz
Take a Day off from Free Republic Well, I would, but I'm in Iraq.
That doesn't make sense to me, either, but it's an excuse that seems to work for various things like jury duty.
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posted on
10/15/2008 10:06:49 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(3 weeks left...we can do this.)
To: agere_contra
I guess there are some on F R that can't chew gum and walk at the same time. Most of us don't have that problem.
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posted on
10/15/2008 10:07:19 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(Atheism is a non-prophet organization)
To: SantaLuz
“Take a day off from Free Republic “
I just started here and you want me to take a day off?
To: Cboldt
To: peace with honor
Yeah, what are we democrats? We can do both, working a keyboard isn’t that tough.
To: SantaLuz
Stay away from FR for a couple of weeks? Why don't you micturate up a product of a woven hemp plant.
To: SantaLuz
ARE YOU NUTZ!!!!;-) 
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posted on
10/15/2008 10:33:39 AM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
To: SantaLuz
Take a Day off from Free Republic
And a day from the stock markets.
Enjoy whatever cash you have left after the maipulators fake their
sorrow at the wreckage they caused.
And drop their tears on the wheel barrows of cash and gold bars they
had to lug away as their golden parachutes.
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posted on
10/15/2008 10:38:28 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: KoRn
LOL. Yeah I'm a hypocrite. I haven't taken a day off from FR in 5 years, as long as I had a connection to the Net. But my point is that when I go to sites like cBS, or aBC or WaPo I don't see the same good posts made by conservatives that I see here. We need to spread some of the FR wisdom around before it's too late, and the election is over.
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posted on
10/15/2008 11:08:13 AM PDT
by
SantaLuz
To: El Cid
You obviously don't go into withdrawals, and get the shakes and DTs, and see pink elephants (I think these might be the 'Log Cabin Republicans), when you try to kick the Free Republic addiction... You see pink elephants?
I tend to see lavender giraffes with dark purple spots.
Go figure.
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posted on
10/15/2008 11:10:42 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(3 weeks left...we can do this.)
To: SantaLuz; All
Better yet, Flood McCain out with emails. DEMAND he fight back.
Flood the MSM out with emails. Send articles/videos and demand they put these before the voting public.
We WON’T be silenced by Obama gestapo thugs.
Please go to http://www.protestthemedia.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7
and pick up all the email addresses to the McCain camp and HUNDREDS of emails of MSM.
CAN THEY IGNORE A MILLION EMAILS?
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