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1 posted on 03/13/2005 10:55:40 PM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre
The panelists took a generally libertarian view of the question. Let people decide whom to believe, seemed to be the consensus. Trust is king in the blogosphere. Fakers, posers and con artists won't last long. Many attendees, however, were unsatisfied.

"But what about all these anonymous bloggers?" an attendee demanded.

"I know of a case where a guy was posing as 'Libertarian Girl' and he's really a 50-year-old man," offered another.

"I think blogs are dead," piped one surly attendee.

More whistling past the graveyard by the Legacy Media.

2 posted on 03/13/2005 11:01:13 PM PST by Redcloak (More cleverly arranged 1's and 0's)
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To: elhombrelibre

First of all, disclosure, I am a blogger.

But, I always think it is funny that people think that John Adams so went against the prevailing opinions of the day to create the Alien and Sedition acts. Guess what guys? EVERY state in the union had the VERY same laws in their states. What Jefferson's adherents disliked was that it was to become a Federalized law.

They had NO problem with such laws in their own states at all and many of them used them often.

Anyway, the more voices we have out there the better. We all know that the Main Stream Media has failed to inform us. Its time we took things into our own hands again. Tomas Paine lives and he is ME (and every blogger)!


3 posted on 03/13/2005 11:01:47 PM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: nutmeg

read later bump


4 posted on 03/13/2005 11:03:45 PM PST by nutmeg (democRATs = The Party of NO)
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To: elhombrelibre

Months ago during Rathergate I was chided for suggesting that Freepers refer to this place by its correct term, a conservative news forum or simply "forum" because "blog" is an unflattering term that would be used by the media to portray FR in a bad light. The notion of a blog is that of an unstructured free-for-all like an electronic bathroom stall. Slashdot is another example of a themed forum. If the mainstream media are reminded of this whenever they call FR a "blog", they might get the message. Might take some time though seeing how they still refer to fanatical murdering thugs as "insurgents".


5 posted on 03/13/2005 11:12:59 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: elhombrelibre
"It dawned on me: this clown's free speech..."

LOL, I noticed he used "clown" without the more descriptive and acurrate prefix attached!

6 posted on 03/13/2005 11:20:18 PM PST by endthematrix (Declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery!)
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To: elhombrelibre

My chief question is: does one truly need a journalism degree to ask questions and read the news on radio or tv? If that is the case, I weep for the continual reliance of the blue staters on NPR, for example, and I cheer that we are making a difference by expressing ourselves and exposing what journalists are not.


16 posted on 03/14/2005 12:15:46 PM PST by goldwater64 (Conservative, Pro-Life, Republican & Catholic (Kerry Hater))
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To: elhombrelibre

mark to read at home


23 posted on 03/14/2005 1:00:28 PM PST by eyespysomething (Vous pouvez vous rendre au garde de securite!)
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To: elhombrelibre
"I know of a case where a guy was posing as 'Libertarian Girl' and he's really a 50-year-old man," offered another.

You heard it here first, I am really an 80 year triple murderer loggin on from prison.

25 posted on 03/14/2005 1:04:07 PM PST by hoosierboy
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To: elhombrelibre
Bloggers and First Amendment enthusiasts are exercised over the proposition that the federal government might begin to regulate blogs.

Am I the only one who found the use of this word peculiar in this context? Is there even a definition of the word "exercised" which extends it to be used as an adjective?

27 posted on 03/14/2005 1:11:13 PM PST by TChris (Lousy homophobic FReeper troll, religious right, VRWC member)
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To: elhombrelibre

Criminy. I think Jim Robinson is going to have to change the name to "FreeRepublic: not a blog". =^/


33 posted on 03/14/2005 1:26:38 PM PST by Teacher317
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To: elhombrelibre
"Snarl-faced and glassy-eyed..."

Well, I have to admit I can be that way, too, sometimes-but usually only when I first wake up.

BTW, I'm really a nine-year-old child prodigy named Olaf from Sweden.

35 posted on 03/14/2005 1:27:32 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
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To: elhombrelibre
"If you're a rightwinger, you are a fascist," he vociferated to no one in particular.

Another left wing loon who doesn't know the meaning of fascist.

37 posted on 03/14/2005 1:30:20 PM PST by CarryaBigStick
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To: elhombrelibre

Thomas Paine lives.


38 posted on 03/14/2005 1:35:47 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Certified cause of Post Traumatic Redhead Syndrome)
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To: elhombrelibre
I for one am certainly glad that Free Republic is a forum and not a "blog."

One thing about this forum: If you post something, you damn well better have your facts and arguments straight.

Post something on here that isn't on the up and up and your ass will be handed to you by at least three posters who are experts in the field, regardless of which field it is. And also by at least a dozen people who can "Google" the Hell out of something and find in-depth expert analysis, discussion and books on the subject both pro and con.

An in addition, your grammar, punctuation, syntax, will be scrutinized until every dangling participle is exposed for the world to see.

Oh. And at least 10 posters will tell you that it has already been posted.....three times...and give links to the other threads.

39 posted on 03/14/2005 1:54:21 PM PST by N. Theknow
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"If you're a rightwinger, you are a fascist," he vociferated to no one in particular.

(sigh)...Once again, Left = more government, right = less government. Fascism (derived from the latin word for 'group') is a construct of Benito Mussolini in 1919 in Italy to describe his new form of "centralized government", a LEFTIST ideal. So on the scale we see as we take more and more steps to the left we go from centrist to moderate liberal to liberal to FASCIST to socialist to Marxist to full on Commie.

Fascist = leftwinger. I really need to put this on a CD and just mail it out.

42 posted on 03/14/2005 5:32:36 PM PST by infidel29 ("It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world."- T. Roosevelt)
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To: elhombrelibre

If I post on this thread, does that make me a blogger? (snicker)


44 posted on 03/14/2005 8:23:15 PM PST by Brett66 (W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)
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To: elhombrelibre
Aptly.

Yep, that's the right word. Great post. Thanks.

I should point out, were posted on the aptly named Free Republic...

56 posted on 03/18/2005 12:46:01 PM PST by GOPJ (Liberals haven't had a new idea in 40 years.)
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To: elhombrelibre
....Free Republic, which is not a blog, per se, but a message board.)


FINALLY somebody mentions FR is not a blog. Day late and a dollar short.
60 posted on 04/04/2005 12:43:32 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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"But what about all these anonymous bloggers?" an attendee demanded."

Whether or not an individual is anonymous doesn't change the content of what they say. The bottom line is that the government doesn't like the people thinking for themselves. Tears down all that publik skool, PC BS indoctrination, ya know.

61 posted on 04/04/2005 12:53:11 PM PDT by sweetliberty (Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.)
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