Here's to Ten More Good Years!
Best wishes, and if I didn’t thank you back then for your Nighthawks spoof, thank you now.
Uh, I saw this exact same post on DU while lurking so you get no points for originality.
Damn. I forget to write a 10th anniversary post.
Anyway happy anniversary. :-)
Great post!
Happy FRanniversary, Nubbie.
Woohoo! Happy 10th!
Whitewater. Impeachment. The WaPostIckes lawsuits. The union goon “hatting” incident in Philadelphia. The GOP Convention in Philly, repleat with a union boss getting caught with an arsenal of tear gas and firearms nearby. Y2k. Ha! Here I did some good. I was the voice of reason telling everyone in advance that it would be a non-event. The terrorist caught in Seattle on New Year’s.
The Dems’ trying to steal Election 2000. The Cole Bombing. The first 9/11 mid-air crash in Florida in 2000. Bush’s inauguration. China detaining, then releasing our rammed EP-11 and crew. Our first tax cuts. 9/11/2001. The Anthrax attacks (not the band!). Knocking out the Taliban in Afghanistan with a few SpecOps, Bombers, and the Northern Alliance. The GOP sweeping Election 2002. Our Iraq Invasion. Capturing Saddam Hussein in a spider hole. Deploying our national missile defenses. Disarming Libya of its WMD’s.
Rathergate. Free Republic brought down Dan Rather/MaryMapes.
Election 2004. Kerry runs as a Vietnam Vet. Blames Vietnam Swiftboat Vets for losing.
Chasing Syria out of Lebanon. Getting Ethiopia to smash Al Qaeda in Somalia.
The housing boom. Losing Congress in Election 2006. The housing bust. Raising the Minimum Wage (ugh). The stimulus package. Telecom immunity. The gas crisis. Bear SternsFannie MaeFreddieMac. The iPhone. Windoze Vista. AT&T reconstituted.
The Chosen One (Hillary actually beaten in a primary by a freshman)?!
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Thanks for the memories and for all that is yet to come.
Sorry, FREEPER BRO,
That I must have been so awash in my own busy-ness and other stuff in Taipei to not have discerned the depression—much less early on. Sorry it took so long for you to get balanced out.
Your great narrative above brought back memories. Thanks.
Happy 10th!
I found myself on the Y2K event sitting at a federal location, (somewhere in WVA) waiting for the bad news to come in from around the nation. Little to nothing was being reported. There was a sense of panic in the room. “What are we not being told?” “What is really going on?” People were scrambling to find a problem that wasn't there.
Meanwhile, I had arranged for my trusty little laptop to be on dial-up for the event. I just kept up with the posts on FreeRepublic. Good news of a non-event were pouring in from around the nation. This was a better reporting system, then all of the millions that tax dollars had spent.
LOL, didn't I read someplace she was actually a he?
10 years of FReeping and I "never got a dinner"
Do you like cheese? Did a moose ever bite your sister?
Happy Anniversary anyway. You’ve got me beat by five years.
Great site. Great people.
Happy 10th!
Ten years, and not ONE opus? Get with it, man! :-)
Happy 10...
One of my long time FR rules is don’t mess with the Class of ‘98... they’re hardcore.