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ZOT! How Free is Free Republic?
Kuro5hin ^ | 12/29/2003 | kuro5hin.org

Posted on 02/17/2004 2:36:48 PM PST by gboywa

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81 posted on 02/17/2004 4:16:48 PM PST by NewLand (Go Dean! [3rd party] Go Nader! [4th party] Go Sharpton! [5th party])
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To: MeekOneGOP
see post #15; very funny.
82 posted on 02/17/2004 4:16:57 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: gboywa

83 posted on 02/17/2004 4:18:12 PM PST by SAMWolf (Liberals are invulnerable to reason & logic. They are vulnerable to guns, knives & a bitch slap.)
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To: gboywa
Sir, I my not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Just don't say it HERE!
84 posted on 02/17/2004 4:18:42 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: esopman
hehe !

85 posted on 02/17/2004 4:20:22 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (The Democrats believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
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To: nicmarlo; David1
LOL ! Yeah, I saw that. Funny ! Thanks, Dave !

86 posted on 02/17/2004 4:22:53 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (The Democrats believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
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To: Poohbah
Yup, you're right. I typed too fast.

But that maltese cross is sure as hell on a Tiger I that is crunching a hapless GI. Even in the context of a ZOT thread that's is too much. How about a bulldozer crunching Rachel Corrie? Now that would be funny.

Tell me, were you an 0151 in the Marines? Food service? Radio operator, maybe? You reek of pogue.
87 posted on 02/17/2004 4:23:12 PM PST by IGOTMINE (All we are saying... is give guns a chance!)
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To: ApplegateRanch
Excellent!
88 posted on 02/17/2004 4:23:16 PM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: Steve Van Doorn; IGOTMINE; Professional Engineer; SAMWolf
It is in very poor taste and disrespectful of our service men.

You two gentlemen have obviously never visited the FReeper Foxhole daily thread. If you had you would know how ridiculous it is that you even remotely question the character of freeper Professional Engineer.

PE would never, ever be disrespectful of our servicemen, especially since he himself is a veteran. Professional Engineer is part of our Foxhole family and shows respect to our current servicemen and women and our veterans everyday. We are proud and honored to have him as a contributor to our daily threads.

If you are unfamiliar with the FReeper Foxhole, let me share our mission statement which we strive to live up to everyday.

Our Mission:
The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans.

In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel free to address their specific circumstances or whatever issues concern them in an atmosphere of peace, understanding, brotherhood and support.

The FReeper Foxhole hopes to share with it's readers an open forum where we can learn about and discuss military history, military news and other topics of concern or interest to our readers be they Veteran's, Current Duty or anyone interested in what we have to offer.

If the Foxhole makes someone appreciate, even a little, what others have sacrificed for us, then it has accomplished one of it's missions.

We hope the Foxhole in some small way helps us to remember and honor those who came before us.

Bottom line - The posting of the smiley graphic is good old American humor. It's how we get by, and have for years. Americans have a remarkable sense of humor. We see it all over FR on all kinds of threads. To think for a minute it was meant disrespectfully is absurd.

/my 2 cents.

89 posted on 02/17/2004 4:27:51 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: IGOTMINE
Tell me, were you an 0151 in the Marines? Food service? Radio operator, maybe? You reek of pogue.

Naw, I was the guy shooting the Ma Deuce out the side door as the helicopter hit the LZ.

90 posted on 02/17/2004 4:28:48 PM PST by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: TheBigB
Bigger Brother Edit

FreeRepublic censors posts!

Never. Blows 'em up, right proper like and shoots 'em down the memory hole.

Sun rises in east!

Well now, actually the sun doesn't rise in the east; we here on earth sorta roll under it in our endless rotational spin through the cosmos...

Water is wet!

Not when it is frozen. Wanna bet? Stick your tongue on the lamp post in front of the Mayor's office in Milwaukee tonight when he concedes.

Democrat says tax increases "on the table!"

This Democrat says tax the rich, make Congress donate their retirement windfalls to all of the workers shafted by the lying stealing corporate pigs who welshed on their pension plans and pocketed the money overseas for some fun in the sun...

Etc.

No. In Wisconsin, that is etta alla da udders

Say goodnight.

91 posted on 02/17/2004 4:31:13 PM PST by harrowup (So perfect I'm naturally humble)
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To: snippy_about_it
I don't give a flying Kerry how respectful to veterans the Freeper Foxhole is...this graphic depicts a GI getting blasted at point blank range by the 88mm gun of a German Tiger I tank. There isn't anything remotely humorous about this image.
92 posted on 02/17/2004 4:32:08 PM PST by IGOTMINE (All we are saying... is give guns a chance!)
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To: Poohbah
Really! I often thought about getting out of the Marine Corps and joining the Air Wing ;)

Actually you guys were MARRIED to those helicopters. I'd drive past the air station at Pendleton and there would be guys turning wrenches all hours of the night. And how can forget the teething troubles we had with the 53E? What a nightmare. Good bird now, though.
93 posted on 02/17/2004 4:34:57 PM PST by IGOTMINE (All we are saying... is give guns a chance!)
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To: Poohbah; IGOTMINE
Thank you Poohbah for your service. But you know, I'd respect you and thank you if you served as the dishwasher, cook or sewer cleaner. All our servicemen, no matter there jobs deserve respect, imo. Apparantly IGOTMINE would disagree.
94 posted on 02/17/2004 4:35:05 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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95 posted on 02/17/2004 4:35:30 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: snippy_about_it
It's a Marine thing...you wouldn't understand.
96 posted on 02/17/2004 4:36:34 PM PST by IGOTMINE (All we are saying... is give guns a chance!)
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To: IGOTMINE
My squadron was the one that saved the 53E--HMH-466, the Wolfpack. (I'm a plank owner.)

Yup. Turn wrenches.

BTW, what does it mean if there aren't any hydraulic leaks on a 53E?

It means you'd better not fly it--there's no more hydraulic fluid!
97 posted on 02/17/2004 4:37:19 PM PST by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: IGOTMINE
I don't give a flying Kerry how respectful to veterans the Freeper Foxhole is...this graphic depicts a GI getting blasted at point blank range by the 88mm gun of a German Tiger I tank. There isn't anything remotely humorous about this image.

Then Sir, we disagree and have very different senses of humor.

98 posted on 02/17/2004 4:37:40 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: IGOTMINE
Ok. But just like you misunderstand the graphic, perhaps I saw disrespect in your comment about cooks in the Marines. See how things could be misread.
99 posted on 02/17/2004 4:39:02 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: snippy_about_it
OK, then how about a whole column of GI's getting VAPORIZED by 152mm artillery shells daisy-chained alongside the road in Baghdad? If one GI getting blown up by a cannon is funny, that image should just have you rolling!

Or how about the Arizona? We could have a Japanese airplane fly over, drop one bomb in the magazine and BOOM! Over 1200 dead sailors and Marines in an instant. Now that would be funny too! You're right! There's all kinds of GREAT ZOT material out there!

100 posted on 02/17/2004 4:42:06 PM PST by IGOTMINE (All we are saying... is give guns a chance!)
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