Posted on 05/26/2014 5:44:46 PM PDT by xzins
Free Republic gets about 40,000 unique hits a day. Going to the state donor numbers, we get about 2300 donors. That is about a 5.5% rate of readers to donors.
My testimony is that Free Republic is the best website on the internet. Notice that I didn't say, "the best conservative, small government, pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Gun, etc." website. That is true, but Free Republic is more.
I just had a near real time discussion with a FRiend on freepmail.
I've had zero pop-ups, ads, thefts, etc. since 1998. It was all discussion all the time. Where else do you get that? I’ve used my credit card in our secure system also since 1998 and I’ve never had a problem. Target, Michaels, and Neiman Marcus should be so good.
This is the best discussion software ever created. Bar none. I can track every comment I've made, every response to it, and I can reply and reply again and again and again. All of that without the dreaded outline gradually indenting until all that remains is the right side of the screen page.
There are links back to previous comments, there are links that bring up all responses to a comment.
It amazes me how much like a conversation Free Republic is.
AND, we have a moderator staff dedicated both to free expression AND to maintaining the conservative identity of Free Republic and to banging heads when necessary. They get their marching orders from our main man, Big Jim Thompson, who, with his brother Matt Dillon, keeps the riffraff liberal troll deadbeats away from our town.
So, if you're part of the 94%, then Mitt Romney was talking about you. It got him in trouble.
It'll probably get me in trouble.
Brother, can you spare even a dime?
We have some wonderful people but like every place we also have our “goats”. :-)
Let’s go prospect mining!
Ping FRiends to a donation thread.
Tenn. is not really a rival to Ky, I just like to stir the pot a little. I like Tenn. also, especially Cade’s Cove and Dolly’s gravity defying chests.
We have a rivalry between all the SEC schools in basketball going back to the Rupp days. If an SEC team beats Ky their season is considered a success even if they win no other games that year, if they beat Ky twice in one season the winning SEC school immediately commissions a bronze statue dedicated to the coach. Back in Rupp’s day some of the gyms had spectators sitting so close to the out of bounds line that they would pull the hair off the legs of a Ky guard hoping to throw the inbounds pass off target. Then of course there was the Ernie and Bernie show back in the ‘70s at Tenn. UK has won more basketball games than any other school and is second only to UCLA in national championships. Lewavull also has a basketball team.
We have Amish in Central and E. Ky and are the proud home of Shakertown just outside of Harrodsburg, Ky. If you haven’t been to Shakertown it is worth the trip. There is another Shaker community in Ky that I believe is in Union City or may be Union county, though I have never visited.
Yard sales are still legal in Ky though Franklin county is moving to require the purchase of a license to have one. This is to be expected because Frankfort is our state capitol and is in Franklin county and the pols have to feel important somehow. The good news about our legislature is that they only meet every two years that helps keep the mischief a little lower.
Our politicians tend to stay bought longer than Tenn.’s which is a distinct advantage, and they are cheaper to purchase. Tenn. has no state income tax but is just smart enough to fund their government with a large sales tax for the tourists to pay. We are cursed with both, our sales tax is not as large as Tenn.’s though.
We also have the Abbey of Gethsemani, founded in the 1840’s by the French and one of my favorite places in Ky, though I am a Protestant of some sort. I think Gethsemani is the oldest monastery east of the Mississippi or maybe in the U.S., can’t remember. Gethsemani is spelled on my coffee cup just that way though spell check spells it with and e at the end. I am going with my coffee cup that I purchased at the Abbey.
Ky also produced both presidents in the Civil War, and John Hunt Morgan, and Larry Flynt, though we don’t consider Flynt a strong selling point. We offer fast horses, faster women, and the best bourbon made anywhere. Bluegrass music was invented here and I would bet we invented the rocking chair also, not to mention Mint Juleps and Colonel Sanders and his Ky Fried Chicken. Recent years have bought wine vineyards, I am pretty much ignorant about wine but people that know tell me it is good stuff. We have Cumberland Falls and Cumberland Lake which at one time and may still be the largest man made lake in the world. Also great bass, catfish, and trout fishing. The largest herd of elk east of the Mississippi in Eastern Ky and a bunch of turkeys, the eating kind, deer also abound. In Eastern Ky we hunt deer with guns, here in Central Ky they use their cars, I have never understood that. We are in the middle of the geese migratory path, the bad thing about it is they crap on about everything, the good part is you get to shoot em. PC only shows up in college towns and our kids outgrow it quickly.
Most Kentuckians consider man made laws suggestions and at worst a minor inconvenience. We have 4th generation moonshiners that make shine as great grandaddy taught them. We have one of the lowest taxes on cigarettes in the nation which tends to keep our funeral homes busy and smuggling cigs to northern liberal states is a growing industry. Our pot is considered among the best in the world and if the truth be known is our largest agr crop.
We have had an influx of rich liberals into Ky in recent years which after fouling their own nests are attempting to do the same to ours. Don’t think that will work out well for them as common sense is still in vogue in Ky. Quite a few Hollywood movers and shakers have bought tons of land in Ky and so in some towns it is not unusual to see socalled stars wandering around small towns. So far the Hollywood folks have been a benefit to our area.
If you are settling on the border of Ky and Tenn. it is probably a smart move cause when the SHTF you can run to a sane state where everyone is armed including my 78 year old mother. It does make for a more polite society.
I must tell the truth about Tenn., my grandfather on my dad’s side had the good sense to move to Ky from Tenn. I still have some relatives there and a family graveyard on the banks of Norris Lake, the family farm is under Norris Lake.
Antique shops abound all over the state and I purchased a complete set of 1840’s Empire glass draw pulls at a yard sale for ten bucks Sunday. Mission furniture is around the area though most don’t know what it is, God bless em. Eastlake and Victorian furniture is everywhere and one of the foremost authorities and restorers of Roycroft resides in Lewavull.
We are not an insular state and after 3 generations your great grandchildren will be considered natives.
What’s not to like?
Bearbaiting is considered the state sport, though when baiting Tenn. it is considered pussy baiting.
I like Tenn. and if I ever suffer from dementia in my dotage may even move there by accident. Other then the Smokies and Dolly’s chests I consider I-75 thru Tenn. on the way to Fla. a strong selling point, since it gets you thru that benighted state quickly.
Kentuckians forgo the six pack and send the money to FR, you’ll just piss it away anyhow.
Come on people now, smile on your FReeper brothers (and sisters).
/soapbox relinquished
You have inspired born and bred briars to give with generosity and you have baited volunteers to try and keep up.
Anything to say to the tar heels, buckeyes, or mountaineers?
There are many fine Californians on the web....all of them frequent Free Republic. The remainder stealing air and bandwidth are dogs and the spawn of dogs.
Hear! Hear!
As a 3rd generation NATIVE of SAN DIEGO, CA, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
It’s not our fault that our once golden state was infiltrated by demonic-rats from other states and illegals from other regions who then out-voted us!
Our great President Ronald Reagan wasn’t born in CA, but he was our great Governor before he went onto be POTUS!
They make those at the Farmer's Mkt in J City twice a week. But, I agree with the other poster - Do not come here - awful, benighted, terrible place.
/briar patch
Indeed...snakes, heat, meth labs, moonshiners, and recluse spiders. Horrible. Just horrible.
‘ROFLOL!!!’
I am assuming you liked the post since I have no idea what that means. If true, thanks much.
Thank you very much, Fast Moving Angel!! My love for California remains unshaken even with all her faults.
God bless.
‘You have inspired born and bred briars to give with generosity and you have baited volunteers to try and keep up.
Anything to say to the tar heels, buckeyes, or mountaineers?’
Yes, I like easy women.
Thus, your residence in Kentucky. :>)
Rolling On Floor Laughing Out Loud!
I was at a town garage sale in Kingsport, TN a few years ago, sponsored by the local paper. A rep from the paper was walking around with an open mike asking trivia questions of those in attendance. One of those questions was “would you pronounce the capitol of Kentucky ‘Lew-is-ville’ or ‘Lewey-ville’. As he walked by, I looked at my wife, rolled my eyes and remarked “I’d pronounce it Frankfort”. He overheard me, and I walked away with a very nice glass mug...it was a trick question, and I bit.
Thank you so much for this site, as it has saved My sanity (what is still left of it, that is) more times than I can mention.
I can go without the telly or the radio, but I absolutely MUST get My constant FR browsing in!
Thanks. I always wondered. Glad you liked it. You must not be from Tenn. They have been strangely silent. I expected death threats by now.
Ex-Calif.
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