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Las Vegas - Free Dominion's Excellent Adventure
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| August 23, 2002
| Entropy Squared
Posted on 08/23/2002 10:51:07 AM PDT by Entropy Squared
Las Vegas - Free Dominion's Excellent Adventure
Conniew and I have recently returned from the Free Republic Convention in Las Vegas. We were warmly received and we had the honor of meeting Jim Robinson, the man who created the Free Republic model we used to design Free Dominion.
Free Dominion was recognized twice during the convention. First at the beginning when ‘diotima’ said from the microphone, “This convention is misnamed, it should be the International Convention since Free Dominion is present.” This resulted in a round of applause. The second time was during a big screen presentation of all the chapters of Free Republic. They included Free Dominion, some pics from our banquet in April, and some of our bumper stickers. When those pics came on the screen we received another round of applause.
We met many of Free Republic’s shining stars and learned a lot in the seminars. Author Laura Ingraham gave the keynote speech and she was riveting and entertaining.
All in all, it was an excellent adventure. And now the pics.
Entropy Squared pins Jim Robinson with a Free Dominion pin.
Entropy Squared with Jim Robinson. Jim Robinson, for all his magnificent accomplishments, is a very low-key guy. He’s just a regular dude. He endured a photo op like this with just about everyone in the room.
Free Republic screen name ‘diotima’. She emceed the event and she is Free Republic’s equivalent of Free Dominion’s ‘Wild Rose’.
Free Republic screen name ‘Interesting Times’, one of Free Republic’s best writers and it turns out a piano player as well. He entertained us with great music.
The only time low-key Jim Robinson spoke at a microphone was to accept an award on behalf of his son, John Robinson.
Jim Robinson stoically endures another photo op with Entropy Squared and conniew.
Conniew meets the Blues Brothers in downtown Las Vegas on Freemont Street.
Straight-laced conniew, totally corrupted by Las Vegas, rests (diplomatically speaking) at the bar in the Treasure Island casino.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: conference; frconvention; friva; lasvegas
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To: Entropy Squared
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You'll pay for that last one, ESquared! 
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posted on
08/23/2002 11:02:46 AM PDT
by
conniew
To: Entropy Squared
Thanks for the pics.
To: Entropy Squared; conniew
Thanks for the pics!
It was a pleasure meeting you both, and I enjoyed our dinner conversation Saturday night.
To: Entropy Squared
Ping for later reading. Thanks for the pics.
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posted on
08/23/2002 2:26:14 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: Entropy Squared
Hah! Great pics!
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posted on
08/23/2002 3:12:21 PM PDT
by
Bob J
To: Entropy Squared
Strange, she doesn't LOOK strait-laced. ;^)
To: Entropy Squared
bump
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posted on
08/23/2002 4:10:05 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge; diotima; Skeet; Interesting Times; strela; abner; Faraday; dalereed; Slip18; Askel5; ...
Hi lowbridge. I need to flag a few folks.
To: Entropy Squared
Free Dominion bump...
To: conniew
Hmmm ... I've seen a new side to you in those photos!
And yes, in some parts of Dallas, you can get people's legs broken for public airing of photos like that. Or at least a finger ;)
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posted on
08/23/2002 6:34:41 PM PDT
by
strela
To: Entropy Squared
What great pictures - thanks for posting them! It was a very large pleasure to meet both you and conniew at the Conference.
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posted on
08/23/2002 6:37:55 PM PDT
by
strela
To: conniew; Entropy Squared
lol, Connie. When you do, please post pictures and the full story!!!
It was such a pleasure to meet both of you! Thank you for the FD pin. It is one piece of jewelry that I will treasure!
It was great sitting around over coffee and carrying on like we did. I can't wait to see y'all again.
GOD bless and take care -
Dixie
To: Entropy Squared
OK, joke's over....tell them that picture was posed, ESquared!! :-)
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posted on
08/23/2002 7:59:21 PM PDT
by
conniew
To: conniew
OK...You maintained that pose until this bartender called security to have you removed from the bar. You're lucky I was there to carry you out or you would have been arrested.
To: dixie sass; strela; LurkerNoMore!; All
It was a real pleasure to meet all of you, too. :-)
Glad you like your FD pin, Dixie. If anyone else wants one, just email me with your address.
ESquared...you're toast!
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posted on
08/23/2002 8:22:27 PM PDT
by
conniew
To: conniew
OK...It was posed...nudge, nudge...wink, wink.
To: Entropy Squared; conniew
Pleasure meeting and visiting with you both. See you on the cruise?
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posted on
08/23/2002 9:02:09 PM PDT
by
Taxman
To: Taxman
When is the cruise, Taxman?
To: Entropy Squared
Don't know, yet. FRN is working on it. Interested?
Last year's cruise was a blast -- most fun I have had in a long, long time.
You gotta go on the next one.
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posted on
08/23/2002 10:14:03 PM PDT
by
Taxman
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