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To: Jmouse007
Okay, a bit of a mini-rant here. Your post is PRECISELY why I have reduced my FReep participation by (perhaps) 90%. I'm not pretending that I am particularly missed, but I was once an active thread starter - not anymore. It is incredible to me how any thread can be bent into the issue du jour.

There are many on this forum now who are only a degree or two from being like a liberal..... good news is bad news, and everything is qualified with a "yes, but.....". Please don't become like that, FRiend.

125 posted on 06/15/2006 7:41:08 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (God bless Jared Linskens and his family.)
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To: AmericaUnited; Lazamataz; Miss Marple; LS; RoadTest; Larry Lucido; M. Thatcher; Dog; samantha; ...

Even I'm clueless why I'm inviting you to post #125 - but I thought I would.


129 posted on 06/15/2006 7:54:12 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (God bless Jared Linskens and his family.)
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To: Lando Lincoln
There are many on this forum now who are only a degree or two from being like a liberal..... good news is bad news, and everything is qualified with a "yes, but....."

I so agree.

I get tired of the rudeness of some of the posters, too. It seems we've gotten a lot of the "knee-jerk" crowd that overreacts and then they get very rude and obnoxious if you offer an opinion that differs from theirs. These people started infesting this forum some time around 2004.

132 posted on 06/15/2006 8:16:58 AM PDT by Allegra (Mookie Sadr's Next!)
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To: Lando Lincoln

You didn't ping me Lando but I have stayed away for a while as well.

I agree with you thanks for saying it!!


136 posted on 06/15/2006 8:52:08 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (Valor is a Gift.Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes)
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To: Lando Lincoln; ~Kim4VRWC's~; ~Vor~; 1Mike; 1stMarylandRegiment; 3catsanadog; A CA Guy; ...
I'm pinging EVERYBODY to your post 125.

So many of us feel the very same way.

I'm not pretending that I am particularly missed, but I was once an active thread starter - not anymore.

It's time for the REST of us to speak the hell up and get this forum BACK to where it was.

164 posted on 06/15/2006 11:45:37 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Lando Lincoln
re: There are many on this forum now who are only a degree or two from being like a liberal..... good news is bad news, and everything is qualified with a "yes, but.....". Please don't bcome like that, FRiend.

Thank you for so courteously and magnanimously saying what so badly needed saying.

174 posted on 06/15/2006 11:57:21 AM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: Lando Lincoln; Jmouse007

Yes, it's better to be a bot and blindly accept everything that Bush does or doesn't do.


181 posted on 06/15/2006 11:59:15 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Here a bot, there a bot, everywhere a bot bot.)
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To: Lando Lincoln; Howlin
There are many on this forum now who are only a degree or two from being like a liberal..... good news is bad news, and everything is qualified with a "yes, but.....".

So true.

As a San Diego citizen, I'm thrilled the illegal immigration invasion is finally getting front and center attention.

Little by little, there's good news reported every day.

Thanks for the ping, Howlin.

182 posted on 06/15/2006 12:01:34 PM PDT by b9 ("the [evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party] alternative is unthinkable" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Lando Lincoln
You and I have disagreed on any number of topics, but you have been unfailingly polite to me (even when I did not particularly deserve it) and I have NEVER seen you hijack a thread. During the Terri wars, a couple of FReepers kept track of the "T-factor" which was the number of posts in an unrelated thread before it was hijacked by Terribots. We are seeing the same sort of behavior now by the anti-illegal-immigration crowd. Not a new or unique phenomenon, but annoying as anything!

Please keep the faith, my FRiend!
Reb
193 posted on 06/15/2006 12:16:54 PM PDT by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
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To: Lando Lincoln

Your rant is heard loud and clear in this household and I concur with every single word you wrote. I've thought about leaving this place permanently so many times in the last few months because of freepers like the one you were writing about.

The single issue, my way or the highway people aren't conservative at all, imo, but here to destroy a powerful forum. I'm sick of their tactics and it's about time we take this place back to what it used to be; where we did actual research instead of arguing with each other.

I've had more freepers tell me I must be a troll because I don't agree with every word Ann Coulter writes that I've decided FR has undergone a massive nervous breakdown and been taken over by pod people.


197 posted on 06/15/2006 12:26:15 PM PDT by Peach (Iraq/AlQaeda relationship http://markeichenlaub.blogspot.com/2006/06/strategic-relationship-between.)
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To: Lando Lincoln; Howlin

I miss your posts..The "yeah buts" are enough to drive many of us away..I crept back into posting on this type of thread because I can steel myself to ignore them better after a bit of practice..If a thread gets hijacked then there is nothing to do but hope to try again and see if they are all having dinner, mowing the lawn, writing their Congressman,or making amends to somone they have wronged...



I would hate to be so tied up in one issue that I could never feel positive about other good news. It has been a good week..I rejoice over the good news.


229 posted on 06/15/2006 1:29:46 PM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Lando Lincoln
Oh, but you ARE missed!

But your statement is true for so many of us. That is why that small group has been able to make such a large showing, of late. People are fed up with the thread hijacking, the constant nay saying, the personal attacks and name calling, and the incessant doom and gloom from that group.

241 posted on 06/15/2006 1:53:46 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Lando Lincoln

Hey Lando, glad to see you, man.


383 posted on 06/15/2006 7:06:11 PM PDT by gatorbait
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