Since it is no longer possible to create permanent bookmarks to return to a specific thread at a later date (bookmarks expire after an hour, now) this is the only way to return to a thread requiring more time than is available to respond, here we are.
A related request/help issue is a way to return to the FR site to a specific time in the past; i.e. a given amount of time in the past, minutes, hours or days, etc.
If Free Republic has such an ability, I am unaware of it.
We have morphed from "Idiocracy" to Mobocracy" to "Stupidocracy."
More later.