Posted on 07/02/2006 3:49:07 PM PDT by Wolfstar
That's a cute picture. :-)
They're moving this week. I think they'll be close to Pomme de Terre. Do you like living in Missouri?
Were you out in the tornado? Did you see it? I'm glad no one was hurt!
They'll live near Bolivar. Are you familiar with that area?
The party was GREAT! Thanks for asking. The last guests didn't leave until 3 AM. Very little food left, still some mess to clean up. Pictures, of course! I left them off yesterday to be developed.
I see it's about 30 miles north of Springfield. I was born in Carthage, about 45 minutes sw of Springfield. Have cousins in Springfield. It's all lovely areas. I'm often tempted to move back, as I have so much family left in the area. My sis lived there all of her life, but passed away in 2001. Wish I still had her. She was my only sib.
I think they'll enjoy it. Weather is so much milder than WI., I'm sure.
Hi Dolly. Thanks for the birthday greeting. I don't have any special plans, have a lot of work to do , building a new roof over a part of my house that is sagging. I'll watch for Wheelbarrow. Nice to hear about him.
Thank you Wolfstar for your troll analysis. Other threads are plagued routinely by disruptors, that's why I pinged you folks. I thought that the admin here didn't tolerate multiple screen names, but I guess I was wrong.
Btw, great pics of W, Laura, and Dick.
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All political parties -- and I stress all, because we shouldn't overlook Libertarians, Greens, Reform-types (now mostly Buchananites), Natural Law, etc. -- have both volunteer and paid individuals who put out the party's message. Same with political action committees and other political groups.
Wealthy individuals (such as Soros on the Left and Richard Mellon Scaife on the Right), companies, and political groups that want to operate above board, hire their own consultants, PR people, spokesmen and women, etc. They have their own websites, and also will associate their names with affiliated groups, websites, blogs, etc.
Those who want to operate from the shadows will fund blogs and other websites, people who make good "experts" on TV, and so on, to carry the desired message. The connection to the person funding them is not transparent.
Intrigue such as this isn't wild-eyed conspiracy theory stuff. It's a fact of life, and has been probably since humans lived in caves. Political campaigns have set up and operated phone banks for generations. When someone in your locality makes a neighborly call telling you stuff pro or con about a candidate for office, they aren't doing it from their own home. They are at an office paid for by the campaign, using a phone service paid for by the campaign, reading a script written by the campaign.
Many times, such calls are paid for by some group with an innocuous can't-argue-with-that name like "Citizens for Water Purity," and you never know who is actually funding the effort.
Well, such techniques are now being applied to the new internet technology in ways both above board and not.
Whoa! Don't misunderstand. That is NOT what I've been getting at. What I'm saying is that techniques exist to make it impossible for any web administrator to know an individual or a few individuals are using multiple screen names. Multiple screen names are not tolerated on FR or any other forum, but people do it anyway.
This conversation has been only for the purpose of informing folks here of the phenomenon. Honest folks who spend most of their internet time on only a few websites might not be aware of it, or that it is a problem that can affect any forum, not just FR.
One point, given the present discussion. Conservatives ought to be above multiple screen names or any other device to gain an unfair political advantage. The Left habitually uses deceit and lies because it MUST -- there has never been a successful socialist utopia that it can point to as an example of its doctrines. On the Right, we point to America as the most free and moral nation in history.
And while we're at it, we should send Free Republic a check for the privilege of sounding off on the values and ideals that are the foundation of American greatness.
Of course the admin doesn't tolerate multiple screen names, I just figured they'd squash them and ban the originator of such, when found. That's all. Reeeelax :-)
I've seen a couple of posters here that I could swear were recycles, meaning that they may have been banned at one point, maybe changed ISP's, and re-registered under a different screen name.
Have a happy fourth!
Thanks, I was referring to the OS on forums like this.
What did we do before the internet and forums to get the word out? ;)
Alfie sounds like a cool car name. Definitely suits a red car. I never would have thought of Koizumi.
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