[NormsRevenge]

Most of those I remember well are gone GONE GOne!!

But the Spirit and the Founder of FR remains. and the principles and precepts this nation was founded upon.

Let's Do What WE can to keep the channels of information flowing!!

[disclaimer]

Old freepers never die, they just fade away obscured silhouettes in the smokey backroom of the FreeRepublic of yesterday.

[blondee123]

Some of us are still here, more lurking than posting. Summer takes me away from the Internet a lot too.

[zeugma]

Interesting that you posted this today. I’ve been here for exactly 6000 days today.

[zeugma]

Here's a report of current posters to this thread. Senior on thread so far is jacque, followed closely by publius. The average is 12.6 years.

 

Poster Report

Rank	Poster	FR Age	Posts	Replies	Replies per Post
1	NormsRevenge	13.7y	12	56	4.7
2	Slyfox	16.0y	3	11	3.7
3	Viking2002	11.9y	4	3	0.8
4	hosepipe	16.1y	1	0	0.0
5	chae	9.2y	1	9	9.0
6	rktman	6.2y	1	0	0.0
7	seeker41	15.4y	2	2	1.0
8	yarddog	14.4y	1	0	0.0
9	ClearCase_guy	13.1y	1	4	4.0
10	jacquej	16.8y	5	10	2.0
11	umgud	15.7y	3	6	2.0
12	Califreak	7.3y	15	10	0.7
13	icwhatudo	16.3y	1	1	1.0
14	SgtHooper	4.7y	1	0	0.0
15	combat_boots	10.3y	1	1	1.0
16	UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide	11.8y	1	0	0.0
17	matt1234	12.7y	1	0	0.0
18	SteveAustin	13.9y	1	0	0.0
19	Drango	13.0y	1	0	0.0
20	chajin	13.6y	3	3	1.0
21	Deathtomarxists	1.7y	1	2	2.0
22	Dallas59	11.3y	1	1	1.0
23	Jemian	16.0y	4	4	1.0
24	Publius	16.8y	5	5	1.0
25	LowOiL	13.9y	4	4	1.0
26	prisoner6	16.6y	2	1	0.5
27	TruthWillWin	16.3y	5	6	1.2
28	Jet Jaguar	11.8y	1	0	0.0
29	usconservative	16.3y	5	6	1.2
30	Enterprise	12.7y	2	3	1.5
31	S.O.S121.500	15.9y	2	1	0.5
32	Always A Marine	16.0y	3	3	1.0
33	Louis Foxwell	15.4y	1	0	0.0
34	SunTzuWu	15.9y	1	0	0.0
35	jobim	16.1y	1	0	0.0
36	HandyDandy	4.8m	1	1	1.0
37	eyedigress	10.0y	17	10	0.6
38	zerosix	16.7y	2	3	1.5
39	NoLibZone	10.0y	2	1	0.5
40	wgmalabama	1.9y	1	1	1.0
41	Cvengr	15.4y	1	0	0.0
42	OneWingedShark	8.4y	1	1	1.0
43	theneanderthal	16.0y	3	3	1.0
44	Rik0Shay	16.2y	1	1	1.0
45	Larry Lucido	12.5y	1	1	1.0
46	LiveFree99	13.5y	1	2	2.0
47	Shimmer1	5.3y	3	1	0.3
48	tomkat	13.9y	6	4	0.7
49	CARDINALRULES	13.8y	1	0	0.0
50	B4Ranch	14.7y	5	5	1.0
51	Vermont Lt	16.1y	1	0	0.0
52	tx_eggman	12.5y	1	0	0.0
53	TChad	9.7y	1	0	0.0
54	Alissa	16.0y	2	1	0.5
55	Gen-X-Dad	13.2y	2	1	0.5
56	Chickensoup	9.2y	28	21	0.8
57	jjotto	7.0y	1	1	1.0
58	Jagdgewehr	13.6y	4	2	0.5
59	Cry if I Wanna	3.8m	1	3	3.0
60	Bronzy	8.4y	2	4	2.0
61	Graybeard58	11.2y	1	1	1.0
62	AUsome Joy	16.1y	1	1	1.0
63	VRWCarea51	3.9y	1	0	0.0
64	Cold Heat	13.1y	1	0	0.0
65	F15Eagle	10.0y	1	0	0.0
66	Dan in Wichita	16.9y	1	1	1.0
67	razorback-bert	16.5y	1	0	0.0
68	Dr.Deth	16.0y	1	0	0.0
69	Starstruck	16.1y	1	0	0.0
70	rlmorel	10.2y	8	7	0.9
71	Interesting Times	16.1y	2	1	0.5
72	Windflier	7.4y	28	14	0.5
73	MNDude	6.0y	1	4	4.0
74	GeronL	15.0y	2	3	1.5
75	MrEdd	10.0y	2	3	1.5
76	NonValueAdded	11.9y	1	1	1.0
77	CaptainPhilFan	4.3y	1	0	0.0
78	albertabound	12.5y	1	0	0.0
79	publius911	13.0y	2	1	0.5
80	haircutter	12.3y	1	2	2.0
81	adversarial	16.4y	1	0	0.0
82	SuziQ	14.0y	1	0	0.0
83	zipper	16.7y	1	0	0.0
84	DaiHuy	16.5y	1	1	1.0
85	dalereed	16.5y	3	2	0.7
86	11th_VA	14.6y	1	0	0.0
87	eagles_lair	15.8y	1	1	1.0
88	KC Burke	15.4y	1	0	0.0
89	Caipirabob	14.4y	2	0	0.0
90	informavoracious	6.8y	1	0	0.0
91	M1911A1	14.5y	1	1	1.0
92	tang-soo	15.6y	1	0	0.0
93	WhirlwindAttack	13.8y	1	0	0.0
94	skinkinthegrass	11.7y	1	0	0.0
95	disclaimer	13.6y	1	0	0.0
96	blondee123	13.0y	1	0	0.0
97	zeugma	16.4y	1	0	0.0

264 total posts, by 97 distinct posters. 2.7 average posts per poster.
Average poster seniority: 12.6y.

[zeaal]

14 years and 6 months.
I mostly read now but make this my first stop when there is breaking news.
There were some fun days ...

[Buffalo Head]

If you can’t remember “Don Morgan” and “A+Bert” you haven’t been here very long. Don quit for some reason and A+Bert was banned so many times it finally became permanent.

[Billthedrill]

A very late good evening to all. Stunning autumn evening in Idaho and I'm probably drunker than I should be, but what the heck, this is, after all, where I want to be and you've all put up with me for longer than you should have. Good to see the names on this thread. Good to see you're all still fighting.

Which brings me to the topic. When do you stop fighting? When you're half broke? When you've lost a leg, say? At what point is it enough, that it's all that they could ask, and that you pass the torch to others who are yet whole, who can, at least, march without hurting? How about two legs? What then, do you stop, because it's all you can do, and you fade quietly into oblivion? Can you still stay up nights, after all these years? Can you watch your sons pick up the torch without falling back into senescence? Can you still drag yourself to keyboard and monitor and fight for your country? Can you do that?

Thanks, Jim.

[glock rocks]

$2/day FReeper here Norm.

God bless us, each and everyone.

Do what you can.

[righttackle44]

My regret is not so much about the folks who've gone, but about some of the ones who are left. Time was, you could depend on Freepers to give intelligent, caring advice, information, or encouragement. Now, when someone asks for help, he or she is often ridiculed, bawled out, or made fun of.

Sad those days have passed.

[primatreat]

I am still here,,,,,,,,since. 1999. Am I still a newbe? Always my first site to open on my ipad. Going on 72:(
Real name. Clark Johnson from MD. Aka primatreat.... One of my company’s products.

[Laserman]

Just checked. I first signed on to FR on Sep 28, 1998.

[Positive]

As anyone can see, I registered this screen name on Oct 30 1998.

So on the 30th I will have been here for 16 years. On that same day I will have been on the Earth for 67 years.

So I will have been here for 24% of my life of 2/3 century.

Don’t post or reply much lately...not positive enough I guess.

[BluH2o]

Still here.
Lurked for awhile prior to attending the FR March for Justice rally in Washington, DC October 31, 1998.
Signed on and started posting a few days later.

[McGruff]

Did you log out from the world?

[COBOL2Java]

I’m here, Lord willing, don’t plan on going anywhere, despite all the GOPe Trolls...

[bert]

They have been driven away in disgust by zealots

[Focault's Pendulum]

Any one remember A+Bert?

[wintertime]

I am still here, but busy since I retired.

It is interesting. Once I left the stalkers who followed me around and who tried valiantly to get me banned, disappeared.

[M Kehoe]

I was the 13,500 person to register with FR.

It’s up to what, 350,000 now?

5.56mm

[exit82]

Norm, I’m still kicking. Since December 30, 1998.

Lurked for a few months starting in the summer of 1998, having been so disgusted by Clinton, and then finding this site was a lifesaver.

Came on my own from NJ to DC for the March for Justice on Oct. 31, 1998. I can still remember walking toward the Washington Monument and coming up over the rise of a hill and seeing 4,000 fellow minded patriots there, with flags a-streaming!

All who answered the call of an Internet pioneer named Jim Robinson. People from so many states had come. A very young and not very well-known Ann Coulter addressed the crowd.

Six weeks later the President of the United States was impeached.

In 1999 and 2000, I attended some of the Saturday morning Freeps at the White House, and had a lot of fun talking with the tourists. My favorite sign to hold was the one of Clinton waving and it said “Clinton Crime Wave”. I am in a LOT of tourists’ picture around the globe.

In 2000, this site was critical in the post election period to galvanizing folks against the clear vote fraud in FL, and of course, the demonstration outside the Al Gore VP residence in DC. And Registered’s Sore Loserman graphics, which went viral.

In 2004, this site exposed CBS and Dan Rather and Mary Mapes’ naked smear of George Bush as well as supported the SwiftboatVets. These two things critically influenced the electorate during August, 2004,between the conventions of the two parties, and unbelievably both George Bush and Karl Rove excoriated those who led both efforts.

In 2007 we helped rally the country to defeat “immigration reform”, and we were to finally get a fence on the Southern border. But the GOP’s Kay Bailey Hutchison took out the funding the next year. Et tu, Kay?

In 2008, we lost to a disaster named Barack Obama. This site vetted him, but the American media and public did not. We rallied behind Sarah Palin, a true conservative VP candidate, only to watch the ever traitorous John McCain throw the election to a Muslim gay man from Chicago.

We reeled from that, and rallied in 2009 and 2010 in favor of the Tea Party, and returned the GOP to power in the House in 2010, where, beginning in January, 2011, they betrayed us and America, refusing to thwart Obama.

In 2012, the GOP put up Mitt Romney, who in spite of all of Obama’s flaws and misdeeds, could not run a decent campaign in one of the most critical elections of our lifetimes.

Now, in 2014, we have one backstop left to us to contain the damage caused by Obama, and the GOP considers us to be a worse enemy than the Dems. Just wow.

No one will be able to write a true political history of the last 16 years in Ameirca without mentioning FreeRepublic.

Did not sign up until December 30, 1998 because I was just intimidated by the knowledge and depth of discussion here.

Now, many of the folks are remembered here, on the FreeRepublic Memorial Wall:

http://www.freerepublic.com/memorial/memorial.htm

Just passed my 25,000th post last week. Many others have far more.

All thanks to a man in California named Jim Robinson.

He may not have a leg to stand on, as he jokes, but he stands as a giant among men.

And I thank him, and all of you, for allowing me to be on this journey.