VANITY: The "Truth" about JimRob and Free Republic according to BADJOE

LibertyPost.org | 10/10/03 | BADJOE (Slightly revised by JimRob)

[Jim Robinson]

Dear Free Republic Friends,

My old friend and brother-in-arms BADJOE has promised to warm the cockles of our hearts by publishing an expose (the truth about JimRob and Free Republic according to Joe) on the 18th of this month, which represents the one year anniversary of the date he last posted to FreeRepublic.com and started up with LibertyPost.org.

So, as I believe that only the truth can set you free, and based upon the stratergery of pre-emptive strike, I have a confession to make (before BADJOE makes it public):

I have poisoned the well.

By my sly innuendos behind the scenes.

By my intellectual ineptitude.

By not trusting those that brung me to the dance to bring me home.

By my biting every hand that fed me.

By my arrogance that causes me to think I did it all by myself.

By my stubborness not because of principle, but because of my lack of ability to see what is transpiring.

Evidenced by:

One would think that with half again as many Freepers. with a recovering economy, It would take a great deal less time to raise the necessary funds.

By this time in the June 2002 effort with a goal of $70,000 we had raised $73,000. Not because of who did the fundraising, but because the sense of purpose, of family, of comaraderie, was still present.

BADJOE rang the warning bell, but none heard.

Conclusion:

It is a sad day.

For what was once a great hope, a means of bringing together those who are willing to pay dearly in blood, sweat, and money to save this country, we all love, has been reduced to an asterisk.

So sayeth BADJOE as he promises to publish all this and much more on the 18th. He's been feverishly working on this "project" for one full year. In addition to the "truth about JimRob" BADJOE intends to further betray our trust placed in him by revealing the names of our moderators. And who knows what else?

I can hardly wait.

Is it the 18th yet? Tick, tock.

[VadeRetro]

There's also that wonderful Harry Lime "Renaissance versus the cuckoo clock" speech in The Third Man. (Talk about film noir!) No country, no speech.

[MEG33]

You did not provide the key to reading the red x.My computer has been programmed by the conspirators, who won't allow me to see what I need to see at times.

[MEG33]

I see ,I see!!

[Junior]

Click on the red X (it's in code)...

[f.Christian]

The greatest allies of America are ... the English - Australians - Japanese too --- scratch the canadians !

[PatrickHenry]

Switzerland gave us William Tell, the very first literary anti-government rebel.

It was probably Antigone.

[Junior]

No one wants to claim an inbred hussy as a hero...

[PatrickHenry]

I try to bring a little culture into your life and look what happens.

[Junior]

Sorry. It's all Greek to me...

[CobaltBlue]

Hmmm. The Viking Kitties wear helmets, too.

Coincidence?

[Jim Robinson]

Latest incoming:

$25 from Canada
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$10 monthly from Washington
$20 from California
$50 from Virginia
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$20 from New Jersey
$20 from Arizona
$10 from Massachusetts

Thank you all very much!!

Woohoo!! Less than $6.5k to go!!

[Alamo-Girl]

I can't believe Texas is in third place (sigh) ... one wealthy Texan, that's all we need ... just one to finish the goal and move Texas into the lead.

[Jim Robinson]

Go TEXAS!!

Just in:

$20 from Arizona
$100 from Florida

Thank you Arizona and Florida!!

[PatrickHenry]

It's all Greek to me...

Barbarian! It's a great play. By Sophocles. Antigone buries her brother, a rebel, a forbidden act. Her father, Creon the King, asks if she's done it and disobeyed him. She answers:

Yes; for it was not Zeus that had published me that edict; not such are the laws set among men by the justice who dwells with the gods below; nor deemed I that thy decrees were of such force, that a mortal could override the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven. For their life is not of to-day or yesterday, but from all time, and no man knows when they were first put forth.

Creon's own son (Haemon) asks him to spare Antigone's life (and her sister's). He says the city is opposed to the execution. This dialogue follows:

CREON: Am I to rule this land by other judgment than mine own?

HAEMON: That is no city which belongs to one man.

CREON: Is not the city held to be the ruler's?

HAEMON: Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert.

Great stuff. Compared to this, William Tell ain't nothin'.

[Junior]

Now, I thought Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus, and Creon was an uncle, or something.

[MEG33]

RICH TEXANS DONATE<<<<>>>poor Texans get busy..there are more of us!

[VadeRetro]

Did I hear someone say Oedipus?

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$20 from Never Never Land
$50 from Colorado
$100 from Virginia

Thank you FReepers and Lurkers!!

[Junior]

I've had that song running through my head for the past hour or so...

[VadeRetro]

Earworm!