A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....04-04-03...The (More er Less) Honorable Billybob

Dutchess and Billie

[dutchess]

A Few of FR's Finest.....
......Every Day

FR is a Treasure Trove of talented, compassionate, patriotic, wonderful people who gather every day to discuss the latest news and issues; salute and support our military and our leaders;  tell a few jokes;  learn a new word;  write poetry;  pray for those in need;  and congratulate those who are deserving. Thank you, Jim Robinson, for giving us the vehicle in which we can express ourselves.

Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   I can remember lurking when there were only a few regulars who posted, and now there are over 60,000 who have registered for posting privileges. The forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world.

A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!

And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.

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TOP:  g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett.
MIDDLE:  fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick,Leroy S Mort, Mark17.
BOTTOM:  Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau.

TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam,
dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony
BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang

TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx
MIDDLE:  The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law
BOTTOM:  deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.

TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68.
MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797
BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack

We now have eleven groups of veterans/active military; we will post each group of three or four twice a week, with thumbnail/links of the remaining seven or eight groups on each thread. Click on any of the thumbnails below to see the group full-size.

         

GROUP 1A: TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1

GROUP 2A: TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc

GROUP 3A: TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf

GROUP 4A: TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma

      

GROUP 9A: TOP: Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog. MIDDLE:  Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son. BOTTOM:  JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.

GROUP 10A: TOP: dakine's wife, MeeknMing's dad, Auntbee's nephew, MilitiaMan7, AlasBabylon. BOTTOM:  Joe Brower, Temple Owl, Temple Owl's wife, dutchess' dad, Aomagrat.

GROUP 11A: TOP: ladtx #2 son; DiverDave's twin Don; petuniasevan and husband poorman; Mustard; ladtx #1 son. BOTTOM: AlamoGirl's brother Floyd; AG's dad; AG's brother Jim (inset); WVNan's husband; ladtx' Aunt Eva.

                     

A constitutionalist, a political satirist, a writer,a commentator AND a Patriot…. please join me in welcoming Congressman Billybob as today's FR Finest….

The (More er Less) Honorable Billybob, cyberCongressman from Western Carolina

So Just Who is Congressman Billybob and How Did He Get here??? (This is good folks…a real original…)

This here's the (More or Less) Honorable Congressman Billybob from Western Carolina. Of all the 100,000 folks who've signed up for FreeRepublic, give or take a few, I may be the only one who posted here before he ever visited the website. To explain:

Here we go…AND IT WASN'T A DRUDGE LINK…!

Seven years ago, a friend who was commissioned to create a humor section ("Newsgrief") on the dreaded AOL, invited me to write a weekly column for that. But who should write it? J. Armor, Esq., which is who I am in the real world, is not known as either very colorful or greatly humorous. So I created the (More er Less) Honorable Billybob, etc. to write the column And at the same time I created Felicity Fahrquar, his Close Personal Assistant. The deal was that Felicity was younger, prettier and smarter than Billybob.

About a year and a half later, I got an e-mail from a reader that he'd posted one of my columns on "FreeRepublic," and he gave the webaddress. So I went there, found a group of intelligent, funny, dedicated Americans in a community largely free of the political garbage that fills the minds of entirely too many Americans, today. I felt at home. I signed up. I've never looked back.

THEN AND NOW…..

Speaking at the DC Patriots Rally III, 1/18/03

Since then, I've participated often in the D.C. Chapter's Freeps of the Clinton White House. I've spoken at three of the Rallies on the Mall, and another in my state Capitol, Raleigh, on 22 March.

And again...last month at the Raleigh SC Patriots Rally

My weekly column, which I'm still writing, first escaped AOL and onto the Net, and now it has been picked up by United Press International. I post those on FR once the final text is on the wire.

Lastly, my column has led to weekly radio broadcasts on a national show, "American Breakfast," and on a statewide show, with Jerry Agar on WPTF in Raleigh. It has also earned a monthly slot on RadioFreeRepublic.

C. BillyB is on FR Radio the 2nd Thursday of every month on the times noted.

Congressman Billybob, the Lawyer and Constitutionalist

FR is entirely in line with the strongest interest in my personal life. Encouraged by excellent teachers in high school and college, my abiding interest in the US Constitution began early. I lead my class in Con-Law at Yale, and again at Maryland Law. Believe it or not, the first case I ever tried as a lawyer was not a fender-bender accident, or a marijuana cigarette case, but a First Amendment challenge to the election laws of Maryland which went all the way to the Supreme Court.

Alas, that first case was a loss. But as with FR I was hooked. Four years later I got back to the Supreme Court with a similar case, and won. I expect to file my 17th brief in that Court, against the Campaign Finance "Reform" Act, when that issue gets there.

A Peek at the Personal Side and a Cyber Dream True

I'm married with four children and two grandchildren. I'll maintain an element of privacy but WILL share the following….

Five years ago, Newsweek recommended my column in its Cyberscope feature. A lady working in a medical office in Indiana, read the recommendation, read the column, and sent me a funny e-mail. Hundreds of e-mails followed, then hours of phone calls. We met, and eventually we married. So, Kem has become the real Felicity Fahrquar. And she is younger, prettier, and smarter than the Congresscritter. Freepers who have met her, and had posts with her, can attest to that.

Hobbies???

As for hobbies, I dimly remember what those were like. I used to engage in mountain climbing and white-water rafting. Now, between my full-time work AND full-time Freeping, I barely have time to eat occasionally and breathe from time to time!

Pretty Impressive…In His Spare Time….BB is Writing his 8th Book….

My seventh book is now out. "To Restore Trust in America," is described here.

My eighth book, "These Are the Times That Try Men's Souls," is on Thomas Paine and will be out this year. My ninth book, on writing for pay, is "Write. Get Paid. Now." It will include a computer disk with a professional writing program, "WordCrafter" (tm), on it. My co-author, Bob Calco, is doing the heavy lifting on that project. His wife Olga, a Russian-trained artist and architect, is my co-author on the former project, doing the excellent line drawings in the book.

An Open Invitation to all Freepers

We live in a restored farmhouse on Kettle Rock Mountain in the Blue Ridge, in Highlands, North Carolina very near to the junction of NC, SC and Ga. There's a wrap-around porch, an 80-mile view (weather permitting), and we are smack dab on the Eastern Continental Divide. Any Freepers who make it to this small corner of the world are welcome to "set a spell onna porch with us'ns."

Please join me in recognizing a TRUE FR's FINEST....The (More er Less) Honorable Billybob!!!

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 03-31-03 Salute to the Military (Inspirational) 04-01-03 Ladtx Essay.."Courage" (an awesome read) 04-02-03 Tatze 04-03-03 JohnHuang2 Essay

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' The guy's good, folks!

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[Dubya]

Good post and Amen.

[LadyX]

Thank you, Louie - - how fortunate we are to know persons like that, though!

Hmmmmm - -

How about a piece homemade lemon meringue pie for Da Wolfie??

[Mama_Bear]

Early birthday present for ya, your own personal back scratcher. : )

LOLOL! You are toooooo kind! :-)

Hi, Fuzzy! : )

Hi, sweetbear! You've been missed around here.

[LadyX]

Thanks, Dubya.

What tripped my trigger was the last part:

" We're gonna be just fine. The selfish and corrupt Anti-American left, the 50 something Vietnam-era godless operators and poison merchants, are marginalized and isolated like never before."

Free Repulic brings to us all too often horror stories of how 'corrections' of Wrong Thinking are heaped upon today's children.

I had just seen on Hannity & Colmes two young boys while playing in a sports event in Boston were heckled by ones on the opposing team, deliberately spewing anti-war sentiments at them! They resisted, but the others kept it up - and the referee in a faceoff echoed the taunts, rather than admonishing them!!
The two boys talked back a little, they admitted, but did not strike them.

I see the vermin crawling all over America - - -

[ST.LOUIE1]

Thank you, Louie - - how fortunate we are to know persons like that, though!

Yes, we are. I've had the good fortune to know, and do know people of such calibur. My dad was one.

Hmmmmm - -
How about a piece homemade lemon meringue pie for Da Wolfie??

Why, thank you, Exie! Looks deee-licious! Slurrrrrp!! : )

[ST.LOUIE1]

Early birthday present for ya, your own personal back scratcher. : )

LOLOL! You are toooooo kind! :-)

Thank you! : )

Hi, Fuzzy! : )

Hi, sweetbear! You've been missed around here.

: ) I don't wear out my welcome if I stay away once in awhile....he said hopefully. LOL

[dutchess]

(((((((LOUIE)))))))

Thanks so much for the banner...it was my "inspiration"... Don't know if you noticed...Billie did a little editing close to midnight last night, I gave you BillyBob as opposed to Billybob (with a small b) All I can say is this is the best team in the land! Love you brotha!

[ST.LOUIE1]

Thanks so much for the banner...it was my "inspiration"... Don't know if you noticed...Billie did a little editing close to midnight last night, I gave you BillyBob as opposed to Billybob (with a small b)

I noticed....thought my eyes were deceiving me. LOL

All I can say is this is the best team in the land! Love you brotha!

And you're a big part of the *team*. : )

Love you back, Sistah! LOL

[ST.LOUIE1]

Congrats, BB!

[dutchess]

Thin Man is slowing down, but don't tell him I said that, Okay?

I won't tell him if you don't LOL!

[MeekOneGOP]

Well, I guess I better lay me head on the pillow for a few hours, folks. I'll see ya'll in the mornin' !

G'night !

[LadyX]

Night, Meekie.
Don't let CarlsbadCaveman slack off and serve warmed leftover coffee in the morning..:))

And would you have him stir it with the pencil counter-clockwise now and then?
Thanks - - -

[Mama_Bear]

: ) I don't wear out my welcome if I stay away once in awhile....he said hopefully. LOL

What a silly wolf you are! That could never happen. LOL.

[Diver Dave]

I had just seen on Hannity & Colmes two young boys while playing in a sports event in Boston were heckled by ones on the opposing team, deliberately spewing anti-war sentiments at them! They resisted, but the others kept it up - and the referee in a faceoff echoed the taunts, rather than admonishing them!! The two boys talked back a little, they admitted, but did not strike them.

Michael Reagan just finished describing in detail the above incident. It occurred in a hockey match - a pee wee league series in Montreal. Pretty disgusting stuff took place during these young boy's trip to Cananda from the Boston area. Flag burning, flip-offs, booing by the spectators during the National Anthem. The list goes on. Canada doesn't seem to make anything that I would want to spend my money on so they join my boycott list.

[ST.LOUIE1]

: ) I don't wear out my welcome if I stay away once in awhile....he said hopefully. LOL

What a silly wolf you are! That could never happen. LOL.

Well, not as long as you're around. That's a good thing. : )

[Mama_Bear]

Well, not as long as you're around. That's a good thing. : )

:-) I'm your number one fan........but I know there are lots of others real close behind me.

Good night wolfie. ((((((((((((Louie)))))))))))))

[LadyX]

Thanks for the feedback.
I tuned in right after the show started and only knew the boys were from Boston, and didn't realize they were playing in Canada.

Sad, isn't it?

[ST.LOUIE1]

Well, not as long as you're around. That's a good thing. : )p> :-) I'm your number one fan........but I know there are lots of others real close behind me.

Don't know about that, but I'm mighty happy to have you as my #1 fan, : )

Good night wolfie. ((((((((((((Louie)))))))))))))

G'nite, sweet fuzzy. wolfie(((((((Lori))))))))))))wolfie : )

[mykdsmom]

NC Ping for our own Congressman Billybob.

I had the honor, as many of you Raleigh area FReepers did, to meet John on 3/22/03 at the Rally For America at the State Capital. He was a wonderful and engaging speaker and had the crowd laughing out loud at his antics.

I felt as if I had already met him by listening to CBB on WPTF radio for the past several Mondays on the drive-by education series. I learned so much from his talks on the Bill of Rights these past few weeks.

I've also had the pleasure of visiting Highlands NC several years ago and can only imagine the beautiful, serenity of living there. I may take you up on your offer of a drink on your lovely deck John. I will bring the drinks though

Thank you for adding so much to FR. We are a much better place because of you.

MKM

[ArneFufkin]

I think the groin kick of this war is going to create an American moral renaissance LadyX. Americans, for the first time since World War II, understand the nature and scale of the perilous threats to our lives and liberties at large in this world and within our borders, acknowledge and honor the mortal sacrifices and costs being borne in defense of our lives and nation, and will see for the first time the out from hiding and panicked enemies of our values and American institutions that are entrenched and working against us in our schools and colleges, news and popular media, elite political class and their taxpayer clients, and manning the benches and corrupting our law and courtrooms. They're in the light of day now.

The Clinton 90s were much like the Roaring 20s, built on a national ethos personnified by that vile man and his mob of corrupt lawyers. It was about self-indulgence, hedonism, hubris, pagan secular cults, fraud, greed, and prevailing amorality - all enabled by a citizenry numb to their duty, to preserve an ethical and lawful government. "My 401K is rocking thank you BEA Systems and JDS Uniphase whatever you guys do. Yeah, Clinton's a lying scumbag and he's the Prez but he apologized to all the Africans and American blacks and women and gays and Europeans for the stuff we did to them so that I get to be so rich, and the GOP is against the old folks and the poor. My new Lexus is gonna be here on Tuesday - and I missed the kids' teachers conference and their school play but I'll buy them something and they'll get over it!"

The aging baby boomer Marxists, who entered our media, governmental, legal and educational institutions after their anti-American education during VietNam protests ... are at the apex of their power right now. They are 53-60 years old. They will never be more entrenched and influential than this current era. And ... they are losing. Badly.

We have a man of wisdom, character and prayer leading our country. Our military institution has never demonstrated its strength, skill and humanity in such a open and righteous way. We are chipping away at the hideous inhumanity of abortion. The pimps of racist divisiveness are losing on issues of school choice, entitlement slavery and racial quotas. The thuggish civil service unions are losing members and jobs. The Democrats have never been so politically powerless and in disarray. The leftist media has never been so disrespected and ignored. We have never had such a re-engineering of our national security resources, home and abroad.

I'm bullish on America. We have a leader who had the courage and duty to an American destiny to do the difficult thing, against an incomprehensible organized campaign of opposition and villification ... because it was the right thing to do for the security of Americans, it was the only thing to do to ensure the safety and lives of people from all the World, and it demonstrates our gratefulness to God's blessing to us, and our duty to help crerate a life from terror and slavery for those who cannot fend for themselves.

George W. Bush took on that duty. 80% of Americans support our mission. 80% of Americans now understand the evil that confronts us. When citizens of this country become focused and resolute on big issues of life and death and American sacrifice by our youngest and brightest, the Phil Donahues, Madonnas, Tom Dascheles, chanting Peaceniks, Academy Award shows, feminist sideshows at beloved Golf Tournaments, and legal challenges to public prayers for our soldiers in harms way, American flag displays and unauthorized yellow ribboning of community property become clearly what they are: soulless people and groups who insult the moment, demonstrate their cynical agendas, and are to be no longer supported or empowered.

I see it happening, LadyX. Bush has the proxy of American people as a leader who can be trusted, who is wise, and who will conduct this nations business with honest duty, skill, measured contemplation and in a humane and Christian way. Our military, churches, honest and pro American media and most importantly - our most revered and entrusted Office of the President of The United States - are back in our citizen use. People care about America again - every time they see another of these young men and women who will do their duty whatever it requires, wherever it takes them, however long it lasts. But ... they really want to get back home. That's compelling stuff, for those who have a sense of priority and a grateful soul.

On the American Bandstand rate-a-nation meter, I give this nation and our prospects a 98 ... we've got a really great beat, we're fun and groovy and easy to dance to and the kids really seem to dig us - even though those Paleo squares and Euro snobs don't seem to get it. The two point deduction are for anyone who uses the word "justice" in place of "opportunity".

As that Iraqi yelled so beautifully to our liberating soldiers in an inspired cry of freedom and long tested truth: "Democracy! Whiskey! And Sexy!" That's the exact order of stops on the freedom train that always works for me! ;^)