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Posted on 10/08/2004 12:28:13 PM PDT by petrotsky

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To: petrotsky
No, I just don't understand what got your spidey sense tingling in the first place. Thanks for the assist though. I just feel like there isn't much love here.

Actually, there's a lot of love here and a lot of caring. Out of the 4 (four) threads I've posted since I joined in April, 2001, one was for prayer for my ex-husband who has leukemia.

What got my spidey sense tingling? It was the kvetching about FR. After 15 days, you're an expert on how a website should be setup?

Two vanities in 15 days! Why don't you read some of the threads other's have provided for you. I believe one of them is a thread by an Admin Mod about posting vanities.

81 posted on 10/08/2004 1:57:17 PM PDT by Sally'sConcerns (It's painless to be a monthly donor!)
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To: Zavien Doombringer; Rightly Biased; scott0347

Always somewhere.
Gotta get the paver cleaned out from use earlier on gaba and 'sexxy joe'..
They kinda left a mess.
*shuddering*

But when you guys needs us, we're nearby.


82 posted on 10/08/2004 2:11:34 PM PDT by Darksheare (The Mods demand sacrifice, your pennance shall be "UNNNGH!!")
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To: petrotsky

They do ban libs.
However, we do have a few Democrats that are actually here for the atmosphere, debate, and a place to relax.
They're the Conservative Democrats that the Dem party forgot.

Usually, though, Dems don't come here to debate, exchange rational ideas, or merely chat, but come here to disrupt instead.

There were several instances of Liberal Dems showing up merely to post pics of gay porn.
As if that had anything to do with rational debate.
So they were just there to cause a stir.


83 posted on 10/08/2004 2:16:34 PM PDT by Darksheare (The Mods demand sacrifice, your pennance shall be "UNNNGH!!")
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To: Zavien Doombringer
Hey Dark, Asphalt Hot?

Light 'em up!

84 posted on 10/08/2004 2:35:16 PM PDT by mhking ("I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind. It began in September of 2001...")
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To: Zavien Doombringer; Darksheare

I have no fear of your everprescence not a troll am I.

I just stand back and watch in awe of the power that is to beheld.


Just keep an eye on this one lots of tingly senses goin 'round.


85 posted on 10/08/2004 2:37:59 PM PDT by Rightly Biased (I'll Vote Republican till the day I die then I'll vote Democratic)
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To: mhking

Your finger still itchy Mike?


86 posted on 10/08/2004 2:39:33 PM PDT by Rightly Biased (I'll Vote Republican till the day I die then I'll vote Democratic)
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To: Rightly Biased
Your finger still itchy Mike?

Yup...

87 posted on 10/08/2004 2:43:01 PM PDT by mhking ("I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind. It began in September of 2001...")
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To: Rightly Biased; Zavien Doombringer

Baaah, I'm just 'another guy' wandering through the threads.
I also, oddly, seem to be a troll magnet at times.
I have no reason to believe you're a troll.
(Now jj_fate.. THERE was an obvious troll! *LOL!*)

JJ's continuing after-expiring party can be found through keyword 'undeadthread'..
Or one could ping you to there.
(It's now a humor thread/ intel on troll exchange. Though such exchanging has been light recently due to troll activity being higher than previously seen. Ugh, election year troll spikes!)


88 posted on 10/08/2004 2:44:16 PM PDT by Darksheare (The Mods demand sacrifice, your pennance shall be "UNNNGH!!")
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To: TexasCajun; petrotsky
The DUmmies can't even be intellectually honest and pronounce themselves, "LIBERALS".

They like to play word games as usual and hide behind the term 'Progressives'.

As a liberal(old-style Classical), I myself favour the term 'Progressives' for those advocating a revolutionary change to society.

89 posted on 10/08/2004 4:58:55 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Liberals want to make things better by changing them, but not by so much so anybody would notice)
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To: petrotsky

After having spent a significant amount of time on both FR and DU, there is definitely a difference in the banning policies.

It's true that there are few leftists openly posting on FR, but there are some like liberallary. But he can take the heat in any discussion he gets involved in.

NO conservatives are allowed to post on DU.

Not only are no conservatives allowed to post on DU, but no "regular Democrats" are allowed to post either, nor anyone who has too alternative a view (like a Nader supporter). OTOH, there are a lot of people on FR who I would say can be called Republicans but they're not really conservatives. But that's okay since the Republican Party welcomes all. Also, FR allows alternative views like the libertarians whereas DU does not allow any libertarian thought, even that which is of the more liberal variety.

There is not nearly as much diversity of opinion on DU because you are not allowed too far off the plantation. If you don't believe 9/11 was a Bush conspiracy then you won't last long on DU.


90 posted on 10/08/2004 7:00:00 PM PDT by DameAutour (The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place. - P.J. O)
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To: DameAutour

What's a "regular Democrat?"


91 posted on 10/08/2004 7:02:14 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree

The average person who votes Democrat. Such a person may be against things like same-sex marriage and they may support the war on terrorism, but they may be blue-collar Union supporters.

Not all Democrats are leftists. The Democrat PARTY is leftist, but that's why they're losing support. My father was insulted when I tied his political views (the few that he shares) with those espoused on DU. But my father is a union man and he's black and he just doesn't trust Republicans. Most black people aren't leftists, although the highly touted activists are. But the average black Democrat voter is not a leftist. They just don't trust Republicans.

Other "average Democrats" would be a majority of Catholics.

These sorts of people are NOT welcome on DU because they don't obsess over the 2000 election, they don't think Bush caused 9/11, they believe in God and they support things like school vouchers.


92 posted on 10/08/2004 8:26:21 PM PDT by DameAutour (The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place. - P.J. O)
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To: DameAutour

Thanks for the explanation.

I agree about most blacks not being leftists, and your take on their not trusting Republicans.

I find that there are also many people who refer to themselves as "liberals" and vote Democratic who are not really leftists either. Or if they are, they don't understand that leftist philosophy is totalitarian by nature.

I've not been to DU, but it sounds like a bad place, set up for the Left, I guess.


93 posted on 10/08/2004 8:46:18 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Rightly Biased; Sally'sConcerns

Thanks for the tips guys. I appreciate the assist in helping me find my way around. And yes Sally, expect a lot more vanities as I become an even more proficient FReeper. Also, I will squeeze in some quality content now and then.


94 posted on 10/08/2004 11:44:21 PM PDT by petrotsky (Not a dead Commie poet)
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To: petrotsky

Yep!


95 posted on 10/09/2004 12:13:19 AM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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To: TheBigB
Larry's still around, I think

I'm still around...but that's because, politically, I don't belong anywhere. I'm a curmudgeon, a contrarian, an equal opportunity insulter. Without much effort, I could get banned from any site.

96 posted on 10/09/2004 2:57:41 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: petrotsky
This is a "big tent" message board. We welcome a wide range of progressive opinion.

Yeah--riiiiight.

They won't allow anyone who is not a member to even view their message boards today, not to register.

97 posted on 11/03/2004 3:31:22 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

"not" = "nor"


98 posted on 11/03/2004 3:31:42 PM PST by SkyPilot
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