A Few of FR's Finest...Every Day...4-11-03...MrConfettiMan

Billie and daisyscarlett

[daisyscarlett]

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

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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.

                     

ONE OF FR'S FINEST

MrConfettiMan has the distinct honor and privilege to have laid the cornerstone for the DC Chapter by being the first, solo freeper to protest againt the Clinton Administration in front of the White House on a cool, crisp Saturday morning back in September, 1998.

MrConfettiMan Freeper since 8-11-98
West River MD

MrConfettiMan chose his screen name from the "cartoon" character, shown above, that his wife and her sister have been drawing for years.

On September 26, 1998, MrConfettiMan invited people to join him in front of the White House. He showed up with a sign that read GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE! and IT'S THE LAW, STUPID! The next weekend FIRE THE LIAR and JAIL TO THE CHIEF would become his signature protest signs.

Only one other person joined him that day--a lurker--so MCM went home and wrote the first after-action report challenging the rest of Free Republic by asking: "I Was There, Where Were You?". The next week, 24 people showed up with handmade signs. Kristinn and Angelwood were among that first group of 24 protesters. This protest, only their second effort, made it onto CNN!

MCM was extremely active during the early days of the DC Chapter and for that he enjoys a lot of respect and gratitude from many long time Freepers.

Here is a collection of links to the various FR threads written during the early months of the DC Chapter by MrConfettiMan. These include protest announcements, after action reports, and photo spreads. Most of the links of this page point into the FR archives so certain pages will respond with the dreaded "This article has been deleted." message.

MrConfettiMan Threads (September '98 - February '99)

On October 31, 1998 thousands of Freepers from all over the country gathered in the shadow of the Washington Monument and joined Jim Robinson in his cry, ”IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH”. This was the March For Justice and MrConfettiMan was there. Here is a link to his excellent report.

MrConfettiMan’s March for Justice Report

MrConfettiMan organized a protest outside the Rayburn Building on Thursday, November 19, 1998, the day Judge Starr first appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. He put out a last minute "Call to Action"stating: “All right everybody. It's time. It's now or never. This is the week we've been waiting for and now that it's upon us we must seize the moment and let our voices be heard. Think of our weekly White House protests as mere training exercises preparing us for the start of the Impeachment Hearings. The media presence around DC during the next week and a half is going to be huge and it's an opportunity we can't afford to miss."

The protest was another huge success garnering television coverage from Fox News, MSNBC and CNN, as well as various print media.

Another highlight from MrConfettiMan exploits is the first freep of the White House Correspondents Dinner. The weekend of this event coincided with Free Republic's Tribute to the House Managers Dinner and Rally, which meant there would be lots of freepers on hand to pester the so-called media elite as they passed by our gaunlet.

During the Tribute Rally for the House Managers, MrConfettiMan was presented with one of the Significant Freeper Awards for 1998-1999 awarded that day and the DC Chapter was presented with the first annual Most Valuable Chapter Award for 1998-1999.

Specifically for the White House Correspondents Dinner freep, MrConfettiMan came up with the idea of handing out "dishonor" awards to media personalities as they walked by (those who didn't walk by had their's mailed to their place of business). Freepers voted on the categories and then voted on the winner in each category. For example, Joe Lockhart won the coveted "Josef Goebbels Achievement Award - For Exhibiting the Characteristics of a True Master of the Art of Mass Propaganda."

FReepers also awarded three awards to the "good guys." Paul Sperry, Joseph Farah and Brit Hume were each awarded "The Endangered Species Award - For Being True to the First Amendment by Pursuing and Reporting the Facts..."

Our own Registered created the grapics for each award.

You can view all of the award graphics using the link below

Award Graphics

“Do you remember what you were doing when John F. Kennedy was shot? Do you remember what you were doing when the space shuttle Challenger exploded? Do you remember what you were doing when the Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton ended with his acquittal by the Sentate?" So begins MrConfettiMan's after-action report from his day at the Capitol with other DC Chapter freepers written later in the evening of February 12, 1999.

Continuing…”Most of the day, there were clouds in the sky and a brisk breeze was blowing. But shortly before noon, the skies darkened and the wind really started howling. I turned to those around me and said, 'You know, I'm not a very religious person but the sudden change in weather seems almost Biblical coming so close to the actual vote”

“Eventually, the Senate was called to order. The North-East lawn of the Capitol is a rather large patch of grass resting between the Senate and the Supreme Court. More than 80% of this area was empty with the majority of people up close to the Senate. I decided I wanted to be alone as the voting started so I walked into the very middle of this empty space and continued listening to CSPAN [on my Sony Walkman]. As time wore on and the impact of the vote started to hit home for everybody, the rest of the freepers came over to join me. We stood there, in a circle, in the middle of this large open space, in silence, until the vote was over."

Concluding..."While today was an extremely sad one for the country, I was glad to have been a part of an important moment in our history. I was happier still to have done so with people who, less than six months ago, were total strangers to me. This is the power of Free Republic and the Internet. This is what has the media and the power brokers of government so frightened. That ordinary citizens now have a means to organize must scare the crap out of these guys. What JimRob has started, we must keep alive."

You can read MrConfettiMan's after-action report of this historic day using the link Below.

This is the Power of Free Republic and the Internet

This photo was taken the day the Senate acquitted Clinton of the impeachment charges. MrConfettiMan is on the left, holding the page from the Washington Times that FR had published. This photo appeared in newspapers from Annapolis to Anchorage and a Freeper in Alaska sent MCM a copy of the photo from his hometown paper.

MrConfettiMan was born in Newark, NJ and is mostly of Italian descent (75%). (Being both from NJ and Italian, he says he gets "all" the jokes on The Sopranos.) He received all of his schooling in NJ, graduating from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ with a BE Degree in Electrical Engineering. Following his college graduation, he accepted a job in his field with Bendix Corporation and has been in the Baltimore-Washington-Annapolis area ever since.

For the techies...though MrConfettiMan's EE degree may seem like a natural fit for a hardware technical career path, he decided on the software path. In his own words, "Basically, my entire career I've been developing real-time, mission critical, embedded systems. I spent my first five years working on air traffic control radar systems and pretty much the remaining years have been spent developing command and data handling flight software for small astronomy satellites at Goddard Space Flight Center. It's my privilege to know that there are three satellites in orbit running software I helped develop." Currently, MrConfettiMan is once again working in the aerospace field.

MrConfettiMan has been married for seven years to a “wonderful, loving and beautiful woman” who hails from San Diego, CA. The story of how they met and why they decided to settle on the East Coast would simply take too many screenfuls of text to explain.

Once on the East Coast, MrsConfettiMan started working as a math tutor and substitute teacher before getting a full-time position as a fourth grade teacher. Several years later, she moved to the county level as a math resource teacher working with the teachers throughout the county not only to help teach math but also to help the county create the math curriculum.

Mr and MrsConfettiMan don't have any children yet but they do have a black lab, which they adopted from an animal shelter a little over a year ago. Her name is Maggie. She loves the snow, the water, magazines, running around inside and out, and is “100% pure energy disguised as a puppy.” Oh, and she has her own chair and couch, the latter of which you see her lying on below.

When he's not working, freeping or playing with Maggie, MrConfettiMan enjoys playing video (GameCube - Metroid Prime, Star Fox, Zelda, Resident Evil) and computer (PC - Diablo II, Jedi Knight II, NOLF II and RTSs) games, reading fiction and non-fiction, and mountain biking.

Enjoy Your Day, MrConfettiMan
YOU ARE ONE OF FR’S FINEST

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[JohnHuang2]

G'morning, friend! :)

[JohnHuang2]

[SevenofNine]

GOOODDDD Morning Daisy well I didn't know that about Freeper under the spotlight COOL


Well try over to NY Daily news there is new poll that Majority of New Yorkers don't want Hillary for Prez Also they ask Yankees or Mets fans about Hill Beast apparently they call her AIRHEAD

Rudy is right she can't tell from Yogi Bear to Yoggie Berra the catcher of Yankees


And can't tell the difference between Mickey Mouse and Mantle

[daisyscarlett]

Good morning. Thank you for freepin the creep so faithfully and all the Freeping you did subsequently...You are truly One of FR's Finest...

[daisyscarlett]

Good morning....I brought pizza last night for a midnight snack...How about some donuts tonight?

[Diver Dave]

Evenin' Ms. Daisy. Great presentation of one of my all-time favorite DC FReepers. MCM has a gift of writing second to none.

I remember several of his WH reports where I felt I was walking beside him down the sidewalks of Washington DC on the way to the White House. His reports were very instumental in my freeping activities. Thank you MCM for the challenge to get off my pew warmer and get involved.

Congratulations MCM - FR's Finest... You're an incredible man. I'm honored to have met you through Algore's internet. Hope all is going well for you.

[daisyscarlett]

"well I didn't know that about Freeper under the spotlight COOL"

MCM has "been around" for a long time...and he is still relatively young, having not hit the big 4-0 yet.

Oh I do hope that information is right about Hillary...she scares me...

[daisyscarlett]

Thanks Dave. MCM is a great FReeper and it was my pleasure to work with him on this profile.

I first read his "Where Were You" Call to Action when we did the D.C. Chapter tribute months ago...it gave me chills then and gave me chills again when I read it this time.

So how was your rally..did you get Carol Channing's autograph, lol...

[Diver Dave]

So how was your rally..did you get Carol Channing's autograph, lol...

Absolutely fantastic rally. Standing room only and a sea of American Flags. No autograph, but I did get some video and photos. Gonna do the 1 hour photo thing in the morning.

[sauropod]

Congrats, MCM. Enjoy your moment in the sun.

[Pippin]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!

WOW, DAISY! Another Freeper from Maryland is honored today!

MCM: Congratulations,HON!

[Pippin]

Howdy, DD!

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Pippin.

[GailA]

Good morning FRiends..Congrats Confetiman...thanks bunches for all the great FReeping inside the belly of the Beast..DC

Cofee's on

[dansangel]

{{{{{{daisy}}}}}} - what a tremendous thread! You *know* my favorite color is purple, so this is really an eye-catcher. Love the graphics you have used to enhance our featured FReeper's story.

{{{{MrConfettiMan}}}} - Thank-you for your selfless dedication in trying to rid us of a scourge of a presidency. I have seen you on other threads and am glad to get to know you a little better. You have truly played a major role in what makes FR as great as it is today!

[bmwcyle]

Big BUMP to the man.

[GailA]