After over 15 years - time to say goodbye to Free Republic

n/a | 9-5-15 | me

[FlJoePa]

Time to move on. Too juvenile and too much name-calling. Not near the level of critical thinking that used to go on back in the day. I wish the best to all the good ones left out there.

[DCBryan1]

After the child sex abuse scandal involving his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky broke in full in November 2011, Paterno announced he would retire at the end of the season. However, on November 9, the Penn State Board of Trustees rejected this offer and fired him, effective immediately. An investigation conducted by former FBI director Louis Freeh concluded in July 2012 that Paterno concealed facts relating to Sandusky's sexual abuse of young boys. The investigation also uncovered information that Paterno may have persuaded university officials not to report Sandusky to authorities in 2001. On July 23, 2012, the NCAA vacated all of Penn State's wins from 1998 through 2011 as part of its punishment for the child sex abuse scandal, eliminating 111 of the games Paterno had coached and won, dropping him from first to 12th on the list of winningest NCAA football coaches.

happy Joepa is dead. IMHO.

[windcliff]

One boy lover gone.

[Peter Libra]

Yes Churchill indeed did have Neville Chamberlain in his Cabinet. Too be honest I had to do some hasty Google work. Chamberlain was still Prime Minister until May 1940. Then came the crushing breakthrough by the German Panzers. France fell.

Winston Churchill then took the position of Prime Minister, he still kept Chamberlain in the Cabinet, he died later that year a sadly disillusioned man. Just an opinion of mine, but Chamberlain was a quintessential English gentleman. He thought that a head of state should be a man of his word. He could not conceive that Hitler was an opportunistic liar.

Churchill however had lived a life in the army and was a bit of a scrapper. He called Hitler "that guttersnipe".

[Chode]

well, yer account is still open so you'll be back...

[Raycpa]

Shush! You want to get sued?

[atc23]

Fare thee well, Eschoir. - - wait, what ? Is that you JustaDumbBlonde?

[DCBryan1]

[FredZarguna]

I don't know how "highly" Winston thought of Chamberlain. But Churchill and Chamberlain were both members of the same party, so he could hardly have denied Chamberlain a cabinet role if his party so desired after his resignation as Prime Minister.

In the first volume of his history of World War II, The Gathering Storm, Churchill is not particularly laudatory of Chamberlain's role in the run-up to the war. On the other hand, Chamberlain assumed the duties of Prime Minister whenever Churchill's travels absented him from the office. If Churchill had really despised him, that would probably have been somebody else's role.

But Chamberlain -- unlike many others in both Britain and the US -- fully admitted that the Munich Diktat and his attempts to "deal" with Hitler were mistakes.

[Churchillspirit]

You endured the likes of A+Bert and no-pardons and you are leaving now ?

[DCBryan1]

DITHF

[jobim]

I wouldn’t let immature folks alter the course of anything I do. Screw ‘em.

[hoosierham]

The game of swaying opinions,of course.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Did I miss something?

Could you be more specific about why you are leaving the FR?

[woofie]

I agree that is the game at hand but Im not sure how many are fully engaged

[higgmeister]

That’s bull. You’re just upset that your team lost to Temple.

[Heart-Rest]

"Why is the monkey embracing the chicken? That seems wrong somehow."

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[aquila48]

Is calling people “juvenile “ name calling?

[g.orwell]

Are you sure he isn’t choking that chicken? ;-)

SCOTUS just ruled that he can marry the chicken

[Jet Jaguar]

Enjoy.

[CodeToad]

“After all, I was here in 1999, making the place juvenile, insulting, and jejune.... even way back then.
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