Posted on 09/14/2005 10:39:29 PM PDT by publana
Thank God you and Michael are back! Without the two of you FR is much less valuable and interesting. Hope the idiots leave instead.
Then it is up to us who really DO care about freerepublic to have the CHUTZPAH to make a few changes ourselves, to be vigilant without becoming vigilantes, to express and assert ourselves as "eloquently" as do the more vulgar-minded and knuckle-dragging among us. I really believe, for example, that we can have open, frank, intelligent, researched and experienced (as opposed to knee-JERK and stereotyped) discussions about race, immigration, religion, etc., WITHOUT resorting to the baiting, card-playing tactics of the loony left.
Good evening, friend! I made cookies today. Had a nice little time out.
We can also use the abuse button to greater effect.
A great big Welcome back to you too. I'm glad you decided to change your mind. I don't like losing good people because there are jerks around. I don't like seeing the jerks win so I'm really glad you decided to not let them run you off.
I have more I'd like to say but my mind is starting to wander a little because of the meds I'm taking so for now I'll just keep my post short and simple.
Glad the rumor of your demise was just that!
I hope you can still run your JD and BC lists!
I won't badmouth FR or anything. My issue is with those miscreants who stated such things, and most importantly, the lack of anyone calling out those who said those things. This convinced me that there was tacit approval for those statements.
So, I left. No cheesy opus, just let a few FReepers I respect know through private mail and I split.
The myriad examples of blatant racism by some posters there I was able to wipe away. But not those on that bridge thread. That was it. Enough was enough.
This was his explanation from another board.
Well dangit. I still got more rocks.
OK Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know what I personally had done. I understand, now. But I did see alot of people calling people out. My position was that I understood the fear of this officer but he should have let at least the women and kids and old people and such cross over. I didn't defend the looters. I don't think anybody would. I told somebody I consider a friend once that I was never going to get on another one of these Katrina threads and I did. I'm sad for FR because I saw the bad side of the people in FR, too. Especially through the Terri threads and antiChristain threads and now this. But anyway thank you for having the courtesy to answer me.
only if they are half-baked. A fully cooked Opus has a dry, fluffy texture with a hard bitter crust.
And that's just ONE way to cook a penguin.
Thanks for telling me. I don't come here as often so I am often behind in the news!
So glad to see that you are back and posting on FR...I do not post very much, but you and I had some very good and informative discussions on a thread about Terry Shiavo...that is when I got to know a little bit about you, and appreciated your intellect and compassion in those posts...even tho I dont really post very much on FR, I always read the threads, and I always make it a point of reading your posts...when I thought I would no longer have your posts to read, it was a bummer...a bummer to see you so 'tired', as you put it, a bummer to see the racists spouting and driving you off...glad that you did not allow them to have their way and silence your voice.....I am so glad you are back..
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