Goodbye.

F.R. ^ | 9/29/2007 | Jack Black

[weegee]

Our ability to influence the GOP may be limited but a fake but accurate reporter lost his longstanding spot as America’s leading “truth teller” of the day’s events because he caught promoting a deliberate DNC leaked lie and refused to acknowledge there were serious flaws in the documents he was provided.

He stuck by his-story that it was “accurate” even if the Hitler Diaries themselves were fake. Er Piltdown Man’s bones were fake. Er the Bush National Guard Memos were fake.

The sleeping public has been lied to. Just as the Soviets lied to the citizens of Russia for decades.

Will it change the government? It’s chaning the unofficial forth branch, Big Media which has colluded with the DNC on a number of big stories in recent years.

The shadow government operatives who work within their agencies to thwart the policies of the sitting administration are also being exposed.

And slowly people are looking back at the past 50 years with the details provided by KGB files.

Much of what we know of the present and recent history is a lie.

Waking people up to the fact that they’ve been deliberately lied to by demagogues in the media is the first step.

People are tuning them out. Tv news ratings are down. Newspaper subscription rates are down.

The old methods of charting the course of human events isn’t working for them anymore.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Fair Winds and Following Seas.

[wardaddy]

pissed off and bitter ain’t so bad jack...

it’s hard for an aging realist not to see how far we’ve fallen.

[LeoWindhorse]

Do they make a ‘patch’ for weening off of FR ?

That’s about what it’d take for me to kick the habit...

[Figment]

“Our greatest failure has been the inability of the Republican majority, which many of us worked for decades to achieve, to even attempt to implement any of our key issues”

So, you thought the slim Republican majority could reverse 50 years of Democrat socialist programs in about ten years. You were delusional from the start. This is a marathon, not a sprint. We have to take it back the same way we lost it. It’s like eating an elephant, you do it one bite at a time.Rethink and rejuvenate, we need all the soldiers we can muster

[yorkie]

As a ‘noobie’, we don’t know each other.

As a conservative we are looking at what is happening to our ‘Land of the Free and Home of the Brave’ today.

I go to sleep every night - praying we won’t lose more sovereignty tomorrow.

Tomorrow comes, and yet another ‘increment’ has been ‘slipped in’ without my having any say in the matter.

I see the people I voted into office allowing our sovereignty to slip away, and it breaks my heart.

I think I know how you feel - as I feel the same way.

Why hash over and over what we hate/despise/deplore/abhore, and do nothing to stop or alleviate it?

But, then - what CAN we do?

I think I understand, Jack. Blessings to you. I may be joining you soon in a hiatus. yorkie

[chasio649]

ditto...i can’t add anymore.

[backhoe]

Well said, especially this:

Our greatest failure has been the inability of the Republican majority, which many of us worked for decades to achieve, to even attempt to implement any of our key issues. This is both sad, and pathetic. I cannot accept it, but in the end I have no choice. I fear that if I stay engaged I will become cynical an bitter. These are not traits that I consider admirable, and taking a harsh and honest look at myself I think I'm already slipping down that path. In large part leaving here is an attempt to re-orient myself around things I can control, around areas I can be successful in, and around things that will make me happy.

I go back to Barry Goldwater, and all my life, I've heard from The Stupid Party ( when asking, "I want this changed, why can't you... " )

"Yeah, you helped us gain the ____, but we need to control the ___, then we can change things..."

So I helped 'em.

Soldiered on.

Sent money.

Walked the streets.

Watched the country go to Hell, then go farther.

Worked to get the House, Senate, and Presidency under Depublican, err, Remocrat, err, Stupid Party control.

And they taxed, and spent, like Democrats.

Any wonder the voters preferred The Real Thing in the last election?

Best regards, and best of wishes to you and yours, JB...

THEG ( the heavy equipment guy )

Gating out into cyberspace and the Dreamtime...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sorry to see you go. Hope you change your mind.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Cynical and bitter have always worked for me, Jack.

Goes well with biting sarcasm.

I agree with your opus. Online discussions are not going to save us. The impeachment of Clinton proved that the PTB will circle the wagons around one of their own, to save all their hides.

They don’t give a damn about the citizens, except to try and figure a way around having to keep getting re-elected by them. Hence the invasion that they refuse to admit to, never mind stop.

Recently, there was a discussion of the “old list” that is forbidden posting here. I looked it up and couldn’t help but notice that it had pretty much been fulfilled.

Enjoy your time Jack, while you can. Good luck and Godspeed.

[AmericanInTokyo]

You and I joined just four months apart.

I took a "sabbatical" for a half year myself.

Think it over. You'll come back.

Nobody ever "graduates" from Free Republic, because true, complete knowledge and information is always sought-after and replenished, and nobody ever reaches perfection in achieving insight.

With this in mind, you can still grow and so can Free Republic.

[Just_de_facts]

Another newbie posting the sad opus.

[Mobile Vulgus]

Wow.

We haven’t “won” so you quit?

This frustration, of course, is there for all of us. But a proper perspective would cause one to realize that the ideological battle we are involved in can’t be fully won, anyway.

The battle is one that has to be waged forever.

So, you’ll excuse us if we continue even as you have gotten tired and quit.

[gotribe]

Assimilate or die!

[Halgr]

Your view and attitude are understandable....the left have brainwashed this latest generation and us conservatives are being painted into a corner...and it will only get worse.

Then Bush came along and fooled many of us.

[johnny7]

pissed off and bitter ain’t so bad jack...

BTTT

Living in MA... pissed off and bitter is the only way you can stay sane. Adios Jack... sleep by day, move by night.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Sorry to see you leave, but we will soldier on in your absence.
The fight will not end but will get stronger with the
resurgence of fresh new posters and members.

Good luck to you.
We will be here if you need us.

TPD

[Hardastarboard]

When I get frustrated, I spend about two minutes at DU and that cures me of any notion of leaving FR.

Spending time at DU makes me want to buy another gun, just in case.

[toddlintown]

Gee. I haven’t seen an Opus in quite some time.

Step away from the keyboard for a week or two, not even for e-mails, and the rest will do wonders.

[proudmilitarymrs]

Goodbye Jack, Godspeed.

mrs