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Sayin' Bye Bye
March 16th, 2003 | Sneakypete

Posted on 03/16/2003 4:34:13 PM PST by Chapita

Well folks,the time has come for me to take a permanent vacation from FR. I am asking JR to close out my account,but try to make sure that nobody else can ever use my screen name. I'm not leaving in a huff at JR or the web site like most people do,even though there is plenty here to be "huffed" about. I'm leaving because Ali Bubba Bush will soon be starting his war in Iraq,and I don't want to be posting to FR when the body bags start coming back home,or when Hussein lights off all the oil fields in Iraq and tries to attack Israel.

While it is true there is no shortage of fools and idiots in the Bush-Bot League,there are also sincere people there who mean well,but just haven't taken the time to think things through. They just automatically assume that any president with a "R" behind his name is a conservative,and has the best interests of the country in mind at all times. It has never occurred to them that an alleged Republican president would "play" politics or "play" the polls in a manner that would put our service members at unnecessary risk.

There are also good people on FR who support Ali Bubba and his accidental war because they have loved ones in the military,and they see supporting the president as being the same thing as supporting the troops. This flat ain't so (they didn't support Bubba-1 or LBJ),but they mean well,and they are grasping at any straw that comes their way. I understand their fears and symphatize with them. I may well have the same reaction if I had a child in the army or USMC that was deployed to the Middle East or in Korea.

I have zero desire to cause any harm or worry to either of these groups. On the other hand,there are a group of people here that are too bleeping stupid to live,and I honestly have to wonder how they managed to live to become adults without walking out in front of a bus. As an example,one of these rocket scientists called me a "nazi" today because I am opposed to this war. Seriously. He actually said that "only a Nazi or an Islamism would be opposed to this war." After all,isn't it a well-known fact that the Nazi's didn't believe in war and invading sovereign countries? Another one SERIOUSLY wrote that we should bomb and invade all the European countries that don't support us in this war! What is even scarier is that I am the only one I saw that called these people on this nonsense. I could sorta deal with these cretins when they were a minority voice here,but it's got to the point where they are almost mainstream FR posters. In fact,I just got suspended again today for calling the idiot who called me a Nazi stupid,so it seems like the moderators don't see anything wrong with calling somebody against the war a "Nazi",but don't dare call the drooler who uttered this insanity "stupid"! The ironic part about this is that I had already posted to several posters that my response to them would probably be my last one because I was leaving FR. This right here shows you how much attention the moderators really pay to the back and forth between two posters. Basically,it's gotten to the point here where it's "Bush-Bot=good,anti-war=bad!"

And the above only touches on the surface. We have people here applauding every single step Ali Bubba-2 Bush has taken down the road to the coming police state,and they would be screaming "revolution!" if it had been Bubba-1 or Gore doing the very same things. Why it has gotten unpopular on FR to point out hyprocisy is a question better answered by JR and the moderators than me,but FR is in danger of becoming the Dim-Lite flipside of DU.

The reason I am asking to have my account killed is because the "rah,rah,rah,we gonna kill us some A-Rabs and godless Muslims!" pack of fools seem to have taken over,and it's pointless to debate an empty mind. There is also the fact that any such debate is bound to include words and phrases that would be harmful to the good people here with loved ones at risk,and I won't do that. It's just not worth it.

I am asking Chapita to post this for me because the moderator suspended me before I could "resign". I hope those of you on the thread I started today about Flesh Eating Bacteria tell the others there why I don't respond to their posts,and I hope that those of you who have loved ones involved in this war get to welcome them home safe and sound. The purpose of this post/thread is to say "good-bye" to the good people here,and to let people know why I won't be answering any posts they make to me. I have always tried to answer each post to me,friendly or hostile,and I would hate for anyone to think I was ignoring them.

Folks,while it has been frustrating as hell at times,it has also been fun,and I have "met" some very nice people here. It's time for me to move on. I wish (most) of you well.

Sneakypete

FINI


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To: sneakypete
You're no angel, sneakypete (not to say that I am, either); but you seem to go out of your way at times to insult or provoke, displaying the same intolerance you perceive you've received by the mods; I'm not surprised you got suspended. If you come back, perhaps you'll have learned a lesson.
101 posted on 03/16/2003 5:23:54 PM PST by nicmarlo (** UNDER GOD **)
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To: Chapita
then go! LOL

I am getting a BIG laugh at your whining. Aintcha got no balls?

Hey I was pissed off here too. I dealt with it like a man. Will you?

102 posted on 03/16/2003 5:24:01 PM PST by OperationFreedom (Some people whine so much you would think they are French!)
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To: Motherbear
I thought it was a conservative principle that we fight back? Somebody calls me a Nazi you can be darn sure I'm not going to sit around like a wimp.

As far as I can tell, sneakypete is the one that started turning the thread into a pissing match. (Though I'm always willing to be corrected if my eyes managed to glaze over a prior insult by someone else towards SP; I found the whole thread to be very dull.)

103 posted on 03/16/2003 5:24:11 PM PST by Timesink (Hi, Billy Mays here for new MOAB! It'll wipe your worst stains right off the face of the planet!)
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To: Hatteras
CONGRATULATIONS NUMBER 100!!

You (and I) have just established the reason why Opusers opus.

104 posted on 03/16/2003 5:25:14 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: Old Professer
It's people like you who make contrarians of those of us who would rather be left alone; now, I personally am an expert on all of the subjects to which you allude and if you don't believe me I will prove it.

I dare you to prove I don't believe you!

105 posted on 03/16/2003 5:25:16 PM PST by Timesink (Hi, Billy Mays here for new MOAB! It'll wipe your worst stains right off the face of the planet!)
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To: Jhoffa_
Not after such an event as 9-11. And politics is politics... the last 8 years played a much higher game of it than the present and I'll go with the politics of patriotism much more redily than the politics of anti-americanism as long as a republicna is in the white house.
106 posted on 03/16/2003 5:25:27 PM PST by Godfollow
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To: Jhoffa_
Jhoffa_ wrote: Oh my, I forgot about him. I missed the "ash era" but the "ash alert" is still floated here from time to time.

Ash was sly and pesty and always very polite, never disruptive like Eschoir.

Ash used to drive Don Morgan — who originated the Ash Alerts — to distraction.

107 posted on 03/16/2003 5:26:12 PM PST by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: Chapita
This sounds exactly like the seminar callers to conservative talk radio... " I am a conservative, or a republican or a Bush supporter, but I can no longer tolerate........

No one argues the fact that FR is a highly censored, one-sided medium. That being said, you can always watch CNN or subscribe to an ultra-liberal forum for overall balance.

108 posted on 03/16/2003 5:27:15 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: nicmarlo
You're no angel, sneakypete (not to say that I am, either); but you seem to go out of your way at times to insult or provoke, displaying the same intolerance you perceive you've received by the mods; I'm not surprised you got suspended. If you come back, perhaps you'll have learned a lesson.

Well, let's not go too far. There's little doubt that the Mods' rule enforcement can be a tad, uh, shall we say, "arbitrary."

109 posted on 03/16/2003 5:27:23 PM PST by Timesink (Hi, Billy Mays here for new MOAB! It'll wipe your worst stains right off the face of the planet!)
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To: Jhoffa_
I missed the "ash era" but the "ash alert" is still floated here from time to time..

Is that like an Ashcroft Era?

110 posted on 03/16/2003 5:28:17 PM PST by Timesink (Hi, Billy Mays here for new MOAB! It'll wipe your worst stains right off the face of the planet!)
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To: Bismark
Sneakypete is a legend in his own mind. He will not be missed.

He sounds just like a liberal. When others don't agree with him, they are stupid because HE is intellectually superior and HIS opinions can't be wrong.

111 posted on 03/16/2003 5:28:19 PM PST by saminfl
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To: Timesink
LOL

I just read your tagline; Billy Mays is the reason insomniacs commit videocide.

112 posted on 03/16/2003 5:29:23 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: Chapita
I have two observations:
1) Isn't it just too bad that you are so much more visionary and wise than the rest of us? Poor you-- casting your pearls before swine.
2) Lousey opus. Don't let the door hit you..etc., etc., etc.
113 posted on 03/16/2003 5:29:41 PM PST by Clara Lou (Mom and apple pie)
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To: gorush
Gorush wrote: Amen to that. I very much enjoyed his posts. I shook his hand and told him as much at the MFJ.

It was that damned Halloween March For Justice that was the start of all the trouble on Free Republic.

114 posted on 03/16/2003 5:29:44 PM PST by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: quidnunc
LOL...reading this made me cringe with embarrassment upon remembering my very own OPUS several years ago. I was reminded "who really cares?"
115 posted on 03/16/2003 5:30:04 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Godfollow

Therein lies the problem, we lack a common definition for this "politics of patriotism"

116 posted on 03/16/2003 5:30:20 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Yes, there is sexual tension between Sammy & Frodo.)
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To: Chapita
Sneakypete - I may not always agree with you, but I have enormous respect for you. You will be missed.

Take care my friend.

117 posted on 03/16/2003 5:30:24 PM PST by Aura Of The Blade
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To: Timesink
There's little doubt that the Mods' rule enforcement can be a tad, uh, shall we say, "arbitrary."

Oh, I have noticed that....but I was trying to sound diplomatic! : )

118 posted on 03/16/2003 5:32:07 PM PST by nicmarlo (** UNDER GOD **)
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To: quidnunc
The real trouble with Free Republic is that we don't have President Clinton to kick around anymore.
119 posted on 03/16/2003 5:32:26 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: Chapita
Go out drunk as a hoot owl with six-guns blazing!
120 posted on 03/16/2003 5:32:53 PM PST by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can)
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