Our Republic and Our Free Republic

9-6-02 | Joe Phillips

[Freemeorkillme]

Thank you for your quick response. I really didn't want that post left out there for that long. Too bad there isn't(at least yet) a "pull you own post" feature.

Oh, one more thing. Do you also see name, address, and email address as well, in addition to the CC#'s?

Thanks

[tomkat]

uhmmm, you may have missed the point ...

[Mo1]

I like the way FR is run - I'm happy with it and I think Jim and his staff do a great job

Ok .. sorry for jumping on you and yes I am happy here also

[Jakarta ex-pat]

oh, "we're on the same team then ..."

No worries. Let's expamd to a thousand :-)

[Mudboy Slim]

"Hi Mud: All I did was ask the questions. It is up to you all to find the answers."

Howdy Joe...good to see you, my FRiend. I know they are only questions, but I construed them to be questioning whether or not JimRob has sold out his personal integrity in exchange for some sort of financing from a political party. Either that or else these two moderators I've seen you question previously have sold out their objectivity to the GOP. If it's the first allegation, I think JimRob would be breaking some sort of laws for 501(c)3's and you know how careful Jim's gotta be about staying on the straight and narrow after the LA Post/Washington Post imbroglio. If it's the second, well, I reckon JimRob should try to insure that those two Moderators are not compromised in such a manner.

"I'll take all the heat if it puts this site back together again."

I guess I don't see it as broken, but yer obviously welcome to yer opinion on that...I sure would like to see a lot of my favorite FReepers reinstated, but I think we could accomplish that without raising the possibility that JimRob's a "SELL-OUT" unless you actually believe that's a viable possibility.

"I have been reading. I have not perused any other sites, and frankly don't give a damn what they have to say."

I know what yer talkin' about, my FRiend...I don't have enuff time to catch up on my FReepin', how the heck could I find the time to get involved with folks who's greatest joy in life appears to be to lurk on FR and scurry back to their little AFer sites to bitch, moan, and whine!!

FReegards...MUD

[Mo1]

Cute

[tomkat]

Let's expand to a thousand :-)

doesn't look like that's gonna be much of a problem ...

[KC Burke]

While the following wasn't posted to me, I would enjoy an explanation of your artful comment:

But when a person with some responsibility lays in a pit with a bunch of vipers, he has to have some of the same characteristics lest he get bitten himself.

Are FreeRepublic forum members "a bunch of vipers"? Is that all, or just some?

If a person I disagree with is zealous, but not overstepping the bounds of the forum any more than I or some on my side of an issue are, does that make them a "viper"?

Is the critical mind that was so necessary in rooting out corruption and wrong doing in the Ruby Ridge / Waco / Vince Foster / Whitewater / Impeachment / Elian / Gore-Election Thievery Attempt now no longer acceptable because of our own promenance and association with a mildly conservative elected executive branch official in office and a percieved ability that the Forum itself would have more political traction if we could just be more mainstream?

Network activism can have all sorts of compromise in how it formulates its platform, stance and goals. If the FreeRepublic.com forum is an embarassment, or a nest of vipers needing cleaning, wouldn't it be a lot simpler for the Network to have a disassociated name and membership?

I'd hate to have the forum I enjoy be an embarrasment to anyone.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Have you moved up from your coloring books?"

No, but I see yer still an ASS.

Quite Sincerely...MUD

[Rebelbase]

"anal warts "

My sympathies, man.

[VA Advogado]

BeAChooser is on the other site and not here any longer.

Beckie, now you have a reason to stay. . . AWAY.

[Mo1]

You haven't left YET????

Not when there is blood around

[Lazamataz]

Cute

Mind you, that is not an inclusive list. I can give you many more examples should you require them.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

You forgot horizontal control of my 13" B&W RCA T.V.

[Mudboy Slim]

ROFLMAO!! And they've even got my picture on the packaging...pre-goatee, of course!!

LOL and FReegards...MUD

[balrog666]

YOU can call me "Miz." Drop the "honey" crap. Any news and opinion board that starts following the members around like some kind of secret police has taken on far too many qualities of a cult. That's just plain insane. People can--and will--post and read wherever the heck they want. No doubt that's what bothers some here (most particularly the moderators)--when we're posting somewhere else, they can't control what we're saying, or what we're reading. Hard to pull a message or a thread when it's someone else's site, I guess.

If you really want to run off more of your paying members, keep talking that way. It's starting to look as though the "Free" in Free Republic is just for appearances. It wasn't always that way, and it's very sad to see what it's becoming.

Well said.

[Lazamataz]

My sympathies, man.

LOL! That's more like the Wrath of G-d than anything else. Thank Him, I have never been so afflicted.

I do have a bad case of continental drift, however.

[Roscoe]

I've been carrying the water for the local Grand Old Party apparatchik for 10 years now (working phone banks, get-out-the-vote phone trees, planting yard signs, playing sound engineer at debates and press conferences, poll watching, etc.), and they've never bought me so much as a cup of coffee. (That's a lie - I did get a free Coke once that somebody couldn't get to fall out of a soda machine). Rotsa ruck finding the cancelled checks for the purchase of FR by THOSE cheapskates.

Ain't that the truth! :)

[Mo1]

(And this probably has something to do with Mertz being banned, if that was accurate.)

Fred had a 1 hour time out to cool down from what I could tell .. he was not banned