Obviously Sam has a different sign up date then what's posted then.
No, the Freeper nom de guerre 'Sam Hill' has the correct sign-up date, but as the poet Patton once wrote:
...So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, -- but always me.
'Sam Hill' has fought the good fight on Free Republic since there were a mere handful of us here. There have been periods of coming and going, but he's always been 'him'.
There are a great many things that are obvious to those of us who were here from the beginning, but we don't expect late-comers like yourself to understand.
We are just usually amused...