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| September 27, 2004
| Jonathan V. Last
Posted on 09/18/2004 7:23:10 AM PDT by Truth Table
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To: occutegirl
What I really like here is the intellectual level of the dialog, no profanity, name, calling, etc, that I have seen on other forums. Stick around long enough, and you'll see that this place really shines in a crisis. That's when real experts start coming out of the woodwork. When planes crash, pilots and mechanics will chime in left and right. I remember events from the EP-3 to the Columbia to the early days of Afghanistan, (and now 'Rathergate') where people from every range of expertise would step up and contribute.
On a day to day basis, FR is interesting and entertaining. When something big happens, the first thing I think is 'Man, I can't wait to get home and see what's going on at FR'.
(Anyway, you probably don't want to self apply the name 'troll'. Trolls are liberal infiltrators who create dummy accounts so they can be disruptive.)
FReegards,
SW
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:21:19 AM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
(Don't make me roll initiative...!)
To: occutegirl
What I really like here is the intellectual level of the dialog, no profanity, name, calling, etc, that I have seen on other forums.Yes. I have posted regularly to only one other forum, newsmax, and I stopped posting there when they closed it down 2 years ago. I lurked here for quite a while, (even after I registered) before I started posting. Great bunch of folks posting here.
To: Cboldt
We're a diverse group (regardless of what the left thinks, we are not one monolithic mentality). I've seen some "wishful thinking" type of analysis in my years here, but I believe that there is a lot more thoughtful posting here.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:21:48 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: Truth Table
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:22:54 AM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
(All DemocRATS are either religious relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
To: southernnorthcarolina
Great use of fonts. CBS and the DNC are reading and taking notes ;)
To: Truth Table
. . . shouting, spitting, and clamoring . . . "
SHOUT, SPIT & CLAMOR
Debunkers Extraordinaire
Cable Address: FreeRepublic.com
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:24:45 AM PDT
by
Eastbound
( "Neither a Scrooge nor a Patsy be.")
To: Truth Table
"Shouting, spitting, clamoring for attention..."
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:25:51 AM PDT
by
Lijahsbubbe
(POP - Political Operative in Pajamas)
To: Truth Table
? Who?See link on post #43.
To: pabianice
hmmmmmm. Let me guess-Dan rather.
Actually, there are some folks who want to get that thing back. Interpol will be knocking at your door any minute.
To: Tooters
My server at work has blocked this site, but not the DU's go figure.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:27:40 AM PDT
by
dts32041
(bortaS bIr jablu'DI' reH QaQqu' nay)
To: dts32041
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:28:55 AM PDT
by
MaryFromMichigan
(We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
To: CaptRon
We're a diverse group (regardless of what the left thinks, we are not one monolithic mentality). I've seen some "wishful thinking" type of analysis in my years here, but I believe that there is a lot more thoughtful posting here. I think we agree. There is more good analysis here than elsewhere.
But the volume of bad analysis here is greater than the volume of good analysis here.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:31:26 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Cboldt
Mostly wrong, but loaded with information and analyses otherwise not available. It's the interaction and possibility for correction that makes FR a powerful forum. But it is often incorrect on the conclusions.Yes. This is why the blogs are so important to the opinion forums. The blog, in my estimation, serves as the filter for the forums, and drudge and other blogs serve as the reality check from the internet to the MSM. All in all, a better system of checks and balance than anything in the MSM.
To: Eastbound
To: Tooters
Nope eating has become a habit, and I get caught up on Townhall, Weekly standard, WSJ, NRO, etc.
We must overcome and adapt, unfortunately I do miss the drudge thread on Sunday night.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:33:27 AM PDT
by
dts32041
(bortaS bIr jablu'DI' reH QaQqu' nay)
To: Truth Table
IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad. Hundreds of voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention at any given moment.I'm deeply offended. Some of us were mad before we found FreeRepublic and those voices came with us.
To: Truth Table
Yes. This is why the blogs are so important to the opinion forums. The blog, in my estimation, serves as the filter for the forums ... Well, the blogs are somewhere in between, and have also been shown to promulgate inaccuracies and flawed conclusions.
FR is powerful because it gives voice to a wide range of contributors, and IF a person is a careful reader, one can find leads that DO lead to a more accurate understanding of reality. That is the reader's chore.
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09/18/2004 8:34:47 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: TruthWillWin
Ah. Okay. A shouting, spitting, and clamoring troll. Thanks.
To: Truth Table
Excellent article. Long but well worth the read!
It took us a few years to get to this point...but ladies and gentlement we're there/here!!!!
(((A PROUD...SMILING....HAPPY....FREEPER)))
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:41:45 AM PDT
by
shield
(The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
To: CaptRon
There are not so many voices that one cannot differentiate the posters who really have something to say from those whose posts are more mundane. I include myself among the mundane posters, BTW.
I easily recognize posts by people like Travis McGee, Lazamataz, and Xenilyte among others and I have not bee here long.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:43:40 AM PDT
by
Max Combined
(I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine...)
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