Posted on 03/21/2004 11:52:41 AM PST by Beck_isright
A few days ago, the esteeemed host and founder of this foremerly great website invited me to do the following:
"654. To: JohnGaltfla (#367)
Oh, it's much better to go out in a blaze of glory. Martyrdom, 72 virgins, plaque on the "Great Ones" wall of fame and all that rot.
jimrobfr posted on 2004-03-19 03:29:45 ET"
Obviously, he was concerned that some of his better non-bot posters had abandoned FR for greener fields where our financial and intellectual contributions would be appreciated. It was amusing to watch former FReepers belittle, banter and blast JimRob in various forms.
I was wrong.
FR has changed.
Deal with that fact boys and girls.
Many of us grew up in a more conservative era, where our nation and our freedoms were first and foremost. Now we learn that it that is not the case. Principles are for losers according to the Bots and most of the ignorant posters here on FR. To create noise and call those of us who have been loyal to the conservative cause such creative and wonderful names as "Soros lovers", "Mobyites", "communists"(now that's a good one for those of us who have been overseas staring at AK-47's), "DUers" and names which are forbidden for me to mention but ok for the Bushbots.
The noise has driven off many of the best posters from this site. Now FR has become the Fluff of the RNC, posting such creative threads as "Pray for President Bush - Day 1276", "The Economy (Freep this poll)", " FReeper After Actions", "After Action Freep A.N.S.W.E.R. AUSTIN TX 3/20/04", etc...
It sounds more to me like everyone is proud of responding but no one has the convictions excpet for what the RNC faxes them. This election should not be about "Republican" v. "Democrat" principles. Neither party has any principles. If you morons believe that, then you are bigger fools than I thought. This is about the future of America an the viability of capitalism in this nation.
Why "FReepers" can not see this and hold "their man" to the Hamiltonian principles of limited Federal government and enhancing our freedoms by reducing dependency on any government. By controlling immigration, restructuring the tax system to pre-1916 form, and by enhancing the defense of this nation by using actions instead of words when dealing with foreign powers (little things, like enforcing the acts against nations which do business with Cuba, as Bush promised in 2000). Unfortunately you mind numbed morons don't care. If you're 401K shows a fiat currency positive figure, you're all happy as a fly in a cow pasture.
Go for it.
As Senor Cartman would say:
"Screw you guys, I'm going home"
That defines LP to a tee.
Oh, well.
What a disgrace.
I used to admire her, but now she is unrecognizable as the same person. Anybody with a brain in their head knows that place is obsessed with FR and FR only responds to the incessant baiting, whining, bellyaching and namecalling directed this way.
I rarely take a peek, but it's always, without fail, the same. For her to make the above charge is so ludicrous I must question her grip on reality.
It's so sad to watch a once bright mind go so dark.
The challenge for LP is to post without reference to FR. Post articles and discuss without dragging in personalities from over here. They can't do it. It's sick.
I was thinking she left off "vile". I have seen some posts there that have made me cringe because of their breathtaking cruelty.
I never had a problem with Darth, myself - we disagreed, but he wrote to me privately about my father and he seemed to be a very nice guy. Having said that, I must also say that admitting you fantasize about physically assaulting a disabled person over a political parting of ways is pretty damned sick.
For many years, they had a soapbox here at FR and used it profligately. Unfortunately for them, Jim made a decision back in '99 to move away from the incessant anti-GOP drumbeat as he saw the GOP (flawed as it is at times) as the only effective alternative to the Clinton dominated DNC. Jim didn't eliminate GOP criticism, we see it everyday, he just removed the knee jerk, tear down the GOP third partyers whose only contribution to this site was ad hominum attacks and conspiracy theories.
"A" is for Address. If I reveal more, they'll kill me with pitchforks.
;-)
We're at war in case you haven't noticed and it's the good guys against the bad guys!
GWB is one of the good guys!
We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, .05% third party fringee's, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
You sure are generous.
I made this suggestion to the site owners when it was created. I got banned.
BTW - Goldy and Neil know on what side their bread is buttered. Without the anti-FR hysteria and posters, their site would suffer a slow, ignominious death.
It's a buyer's market for irrelevant fringer's opinions, eh? ;-)
Amen brother, Amen!
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