I looked at his history. It's just not there.
Down, my pet, down.
We will dine on Troll soon. I will let you loose then.
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!
Thanks for the ping! Ol’ slippery is a retread, guaranteed.
A mod should check it out.
As I understand it, Slippery Jim is on our side. He’s agreeing that the trolls are romping all over certain threads, and seeming to get away with it. SJ sounds like a good egg to me. ;)
Hmm, did I misunderstand you? If so, apologies.
Maybe you could clarify. What "nonsense" do you mean?
Hey, Slippery Jim, you’re on a slippery slope heading straight to being slipped the mickey. We have a FReeper here who calls a package of his “Mickey” and doesn’t discriminate against trolls. He hits them equally and without grease. I suspect you’ll enjoy it like your boss!
We also have one Jim that ain’t slippery at all and will zoblivion you in no time. You should know what all this mean since you’re a retread liberal as seen from your slippery posting history.
Trolling for 0b0z0 must be slipping you and your ilk good taxpayers’ money.
You’re so obvious, it stinks!
Otherwise, I'm a troll. ;)
What Laz said. I mean, I’m only about 50% certain Obama wasn’t born here.
Omc, LJ; it was my mistake. I didn’t read the post carefully enough. I can’t even claim I had a martini or anything close to it; I just flat didn’t read it right. Please accept my apologies. [On a side note; have I inadvertently outed another troll?]
Actually, I’m 75% sure Obama isn’t a citizen, but until we have a ‘controlling legal authority’ that does due diligance and throws out candidates without valid ID, so what? Power acquired is power, and we A) Should have put in a system about 100 years ago, and B) should have run the system well.
Well said, mel.
SJ, most freepers on eligibility threads are just good, patriotic conservatives who believe Obama is trashing the Constitution at the same general rate he’s trashing the country. Yes, there are some trolls on these threads too. Frankly, they’re a pain. But fortunately they’re the minority. The vast majority just love this country and our Founding Principles, and we’re doing what we can to expose Obama for the lying fraud he is.
Thanks for the ping melancholy! Am I missing something???
Real freepers who don’t care about “birther” stuff use their valuable human lives commenting on the threads that interest them!
That’s why I never see your name on the vitally important and interesting (to me!) eligiblity threads - I know plenty of freepers who think it’s a dead end and they never visit the eligibility threads.
So, that’s a clue...
You may be droll, but you’re not a troll!
I looked at his history. It's just not there.
Down, my pet, down.
We will dine on Troll soon. I will let you loose then.
Apologies? You don’t owe me any apologies, my goodness!
Being such an ill-bred person as I am, I recognize trolls instinctively...
Actually it’s all the Homosexual agenda threads I’ve pinged/participated in. I can “hear” them via the typed word somehow! (at least it seems that way.)
Nice graphic! Can I pat it?
Well said.
Nice.
Oh are the bushbots part of the Big Tent?
Can we shell their island? /;)
And that's just the way he likes it.
Back at Obot Troll central, the orcs are gnashing their teeth and grunting," How did it know?"
As soon as he dragged in not only ONE Orly Taitz, but in plural, he revealed himself for the sick little fag loving 0h0mo suckup that he is.
And a retread most likely at that.
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