You joined in January, just after Drudge spilled Spikey's beans. Were you lurking on FR the night it dropped?
I used to check Drudge hourly during those years of the Clinton Administration. In fact, at the time, all my online news came from FR and Drudge.
And, I discovered FR two years earlier but for some reason my account says 1998, not 1996. I was on FR from the beginning.
I never became an especially active Freeper, never got to know Jim Robinson, just because I like to lay low. I don’t do little comments here and there, I like detailed comments and analyses that teach me something. I also don’t mind sparring once in awhile.
The clowns in this thread make me laugh. I’m usually not so rude but somehow they got my Irish up. I was trying to be witty as well, see how I closed out comments 57 and 68.
True story — FR saved the eyesight of a friend’s daughter. She had a juvenile version of macular degeneration, and I saw right here on FR a post about an experimental procedure that stopped the progression of the disease. I excitedly showed it to my friend, and he and his wife, and their daughter, were on an airplane within 48 hours to Connecticut. It worked.
I’ve always loved FR but I’ve been less likely to look at Drudge lately. Drudge sometimes doesn’t update his news for over 24 hours, sometimes 48. And the links he does put up are sometimes leaning a little too far left for me.
I’ve been looking at thelibertydaily.com more often now. Yeah, it’s a little right wing bat shit crazy — lots of links to Alex Jones — but Jones, if you can get by his obvious commercial interest in selling apocalyptic stuff, does some very good and daring journalism that other sites won’t touch. It also links a lot to Breitbart and Judicial Watch, and I have always had huge respect for those organizations. The administrators are also constantly updating the site and the banner, sometimes every hour so they’re on top of the news as it breaks.
The age of an account has nothing to do with anything, so snicker away.
If its credentials, I’ll put mine up against those of tom h. I can guarantee you I know more constitutional law than he does. He’s an engineer and possesses the typical arrogance of one.