All of your "sins" come as a surprise to me. I must be a fellow sinner, finding nothing wrong with any of your "violations".
I am going on 13 years as a Freeper, and I am in my 60th year, so I have some standing. Here's my distilled wise counsel to you:
Pay these nefarious nabobs of negativity no regard. This is not called "Free" Republic for nothing.
Besides, anyone with a Polish name must be borderline great. I grew up in Chicago with a bunch of Poles and love those people.
"I am going on 13 years as a Freeper, and I am in my 60th year, so I have some standing."Really? I tend to give standing to folks according to the content of their posts, not their length of membership. Never would it occur to me that I have 'standing' due to my sign-up date, which is originally even earlier than indicated by my home page.
Just a couple of days ago, a well-deserved zot was granted to someone with a sign-up date in '98 or '99. They are called 'sleepers', among other things.
Your screenname is not even one that I recognize, not that it means much ... I'm just sayin'.