Posted on 01/19/2011 10:00:05 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 01/19/2011 10:21:38 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
I'm placing this in breaking news, because there have been several breaking news complaint threads recently. Guess there are a lot of people not understanding the facts about FR, or what we stand for, where we're going, etc.
First of all, who reads FR and how many accounts do we have? I honestly have no idea and the exact number does not concern me. We currently have over 369,000 registered accounts on FR, but as someone pointed out yesterday, not all of them are active and I have no idea how many are active.
Many years ago we had less than 30,000 accounts registered. Then we hit a hundred thousand, a hundred fifty thousand, then two hundred thousand and three or four years ago we approached and went over 300,000. Every few years as we hit a major milestone in registered accounts, I updated our home page with the current number of accounts on FR. I'll probably do it again after we go over 400,000, then 500,000, etc, and maybe I won't. The number of registered accounts doesn't really mean much. And our growth in the last few years has tapered off anyway for various reasons.
Who actually reads FR? Again, we have no idea, but there are hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of readers. All kinds of people read FR. News hounds, liberals, conservatives, politicians, talk show hosts, religious types, atheists, you and me brother and everyone in between. We serve over 1,000,000 pageviews per day.
So why has our growth tapered off? Well, probably the primary reason is we've narrowed our point of view lately as we've moved away from just talking about the issues and have actually started becoming constitutional activists.
The time for talking is over. Now we need to walk the walk. Our focus has become closer to working on our primary goal which is a return to constitutionally limited government and a full restoration of our God-given unalienable rights.
We can't do that by being big tent, all things to all people, non-principled, two-talking politicians. If we are truly interested in advancing our traditional conservative pro-God, pro-family, pro-life, pro-country, pro-liberty principles and positions then we must reject the politicians and people supporting the other way.
As an organization, we cannot be both for and against homosexuality, abortion, big government, border and national security, etc. I don't know about others, but if we must choose, I choose to be on the right side of each and every issue. Why should FR use its limited resources to allow liberals, homosexualists, abortionists, big spenders, big taxers, big government solutions advocates, gun grabbers, pacifists, isolationists, environmentalists, open-borders lobbyists, etc, ply their trade on FR? Well, more and more lately, we don't. And, apparently, that has pissed off a lot of big tent, true blue RINO types and the herd is stampeding. Let them go.
We who share our common traditional conservative principles, values and goals will be better off in the long run. We need to build on our strengths and attract more traditional conservatives to our viewpoints than to water down and weaken our own. It just doesn't make sense to me to support politicians like Giuliani, Romney, Gingrich, et al, who have RINO/liberal track records. It doesn't make sense to allow abortionists, homosexualists, gun-grabbers, big-government solutionists, etc, to have free rein on FR to target and lambast us daily with their repugnant bile. Let them go.
FR will continue on the traditional God, family, country, life and liberty path. If it means fewer accounts or less growth, so be it. If it means we receive fewer in donations, so be it. We will adapt, improvise and overcome and I believe prosper (God willing) in the long run. And, hopefully, someday we can say that we helped restore our beloved republic and our Liberty!
Well said.
Thanks
(I am late to this thread and just now working my way through it)
LOL
that is a keeper.
Was bezelbub zotted?
Cancel that last post. He’s still here.
Bump
Over there I've seen:
Registered guests (no stars)
New Members (one star)
Jr. Members (two stars)
But you are a "Full Member" (three stars).
How did you come so far in a short time in a place that you hold in such contempt?
Get a dictionary.
Arguing about global warming.
Arguing about global warming.
What you say sends me to my original post below. When FReepers rely on their knowledge of specific areas, they can identify someone whose presentation is disconnected from objective information and provide them an unpleasant morning or afternoon suffering diminished self-esteem. After regularly encountering reason and research, they should vote themselves off the website, because affirmation is so vital to maintaining comfort within any mental disorder. (I did read the book by a professional psychiatrist or psychologist, which asserts liberalism, is a mental disorder.) As a result of this regular encounter with mental trauma, FR should not end up using it’s limited resources for liberals, etc, to ply their tawdry trade.
As you say the benefit to us also comes from helping to clarify issues. If something is important to me, I always try to ask, “Why do I believe that?” I don’t want to be in a position of having to take action and finding my moral and intellectual compasses spinning around in a circle like a magnetic compass at the North Pole.
I avoided that experience this spring when my wife and I changed churches. The pastor wrote a fifty page paper defining the operational plan for teaching and growth of our church, which relied on the Emerging Church and Seeker Friendly syndromes popular at many seminaries and with many mega-church leaders. After reading it twice, I wrote an 8 page rebuttal to myself beginning with my first reawakenings in college through C. S. Lewis to recent articles I read in World magazine. I found I had a better understanding faith relationship and the place of the church, than he had obtained by running off into that blind intellectual cul-de-sac. As a result I could be comfort able with our decision to leave a church we had attended since 1974.
“I have no problem debating with people who direct their lives by the twin principles of premeditated ignorance and practiced irrationality. I have no problem searching out the original truths proving the sound bites liberals use for their points are no more than mantras chanted for a godless orthodoxy.”
[”Oh yes, Mr. Bill. Ice always has a lower entropy and lower [heat] energy level than water.” ]
[Liar]
“[Liar]”
Hey!
You apologize to Lomanbill right now!
;-)
LOL - [oops!]
And bashing FReepers.
If you're going assail someone's character, at least have the guts to do it in a place where they have a chance to defend themselves.
Correction to 579. This paragraph should have been attributed to Jim’s original post:
“As an organization, we cannot be both for and against homosexuality, abortion, big government, border and national security, etc. I don’t know about others, but if we must choose, I choose to be on the right side of each and every issue. Why should FR use it’s limited resources to allow liberals, homosexualists, abortionists, big spenders, big taxers, big government solutions advocates, gun grabbers, pacifists, isolationists, environmentalists, open-borders lobbyists, etc, ply their trade on FR?”
[Sorry Jim. I didn’t scroll all the way down after having copied and pasted during drafting]
Eventually the posters at truebluerino will be forced to decide which site they’re going to put their energies into, FR or the rino site.
Just like what happened to Clown Posse.
Of course, they will whine up a storm about their bannings from here, just like the CP’s did.
And then to further cement the negative view of them, they will summarily troll FR.
I’m good at finding trolls.
It’s just, you have to be able to prove it to the powers that are.
];-)
There does seem to be a sustained program of posting "Birther" nonsense for the apparent purpose of making conservatives look ridiculous.
Agreed. They [the trolls] try to make us look ridiculous; they sow confusion; they lie and lie, and then lie some more; they never advance, support or defend conservatism; they DO promote liberalism; they are disruptors and antagonists, and they leave a trail of bad feelings whenever and wherever they post.
It’s always the same ones. If anybody wants a list, all they have to do is ask. Red Steel, Melancholy and Danamco know who they are—and so do I.
Oops; I left one off. Little Jeremiah knows who the trolls are too. (Sorry, LJ; it wasn’t on purpose. ;)
Troll.
Au contraire, 0h0m0’s peeps are getting quite nervous and even signing up as we speak to lie on his behalf.
Many are retreads, having been zotted before....
hmmm.....
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