Dear, Lead Moderator

Freedom is COntagious | 10-29-03 | Freedom is Contagious

[Freedom Is Contagious]

I find it awfully discouraging that the articles I posted that were hosted by stevequayle.com, which originated from viable news and various other sources, were pulled and that the only reason given for their exclusion was that, and I quote, "I don't think we want stevequayle.com here".

[Captiva]

1) Is that a viking kitty in your lap?

2) Is that artwork John Wayne's head floating above a mountain range? Too cool!

[Chancellor Palpatine]

You know, you can set your browser so that fonts are bigger for you there and you can see it at your convenience without subjecting the rest of us to it.

[GOPJ]

Great comment:

"Fellow freepers"???!!!

You've been here barely a day..how are some here your fellows?

[Lead Moderator]

Probably until you got to the stuff which is from "American Free Press", which is by the same people who published "The Spotlight".

[Lead Moderator]

Yeah, most people don't understand that my screen name is pronounced with the 'eh' sound, not the 'ee' sound. :-)

[Shooter 2.5]

1]Polly, the kitty from hell. She's a one-eyed little honey. Dusty is a prissy cat that's no fun at all.

2] My wife bought that print after I remarked that there will never be another John Wayne. The world has changed too much. I wish Hollywood would find one of our heroes from the Gulf and Iraq Wars and see if there's anyone like him.
I guess the background is supposed to look like Monument Valley.

[Lead Moderator]

Tell ya what I'ma gonna do. I restored the two articles posted which were from other sources (Telegraph UK and USAToday). I updated the headers to point to the Telegraph and to the USAToday.

I am not sure what sort of editing you want done to them, but you can't edit postings anyway so that is a moot point.

[Lead Moderator]

Nah, he ran off and posted a duplicate of some Sierra Times piece. It's been pulled with a message pointing him to the last copy of it posted.

[Cultural Jihad]

Yeah, most people don't understand that my screen name is pronounced with the 'eh' sound, not the 'ee' sound. :-)

[ gulp ]

[Lead Moderator]

When I post my opinions in the font that best suits my severe vision problems

Using larger fonts isn't going to really help there. You know what you wrote, and what everyone else writes will be in smaller fonts.

Just about every web browser available lets you override the default settings for font size, to make it easier for people with vision problems to increase the size to their own preference.

Thanks.

[Snerfling]

How about being a polite guest on a private web site?

This is a very poor analogy. FR is a private business; posters and readers are customers. While the level of discourse should remain polite, it's because of market decisions made by the owner (which I approve), not out of some sentimental drivel regarding 'guests'.

[Lead Moderator]

For example, if you are using Internet Explorer 6.0, go to the "View" menu, and then to the "Text Size" submenu, and choose "Largest". Voila! You'll get your larger, easier to read text without overwhelming everyone else.

[RonDog]

Pardon me for not knowing the societal structure of FR.COm

It COuld be, worse.

From www.motherflash.com:

Even today in one modern synagogue, there was always a dispute over whether to stand during the recitation of the Shema or to sit. One faction felt it was disrespectful to sit, and preferred to stand; one faction felt that standing was bad, and that all should sit. It was awful ... every time the rabbi would begin "Shema Yisroel," the congregation would erupt in disputes and argument.

The standees were trying to lift the sittees, and the sittees were trying to pull down the standees. Every Shabbat it was the same: Argue, argue, argue. So the congregation sent a delegation to the rabbi, consisting of both sittees and standees, "Rabbi, is it our tradition to sit during the Shema or stand during the Shema?"

The rabbi thought for a while and said, "I don't know. It's always been a point of contention for as long as I have been here."

So they went to the former rabbi and asked him: "Rabbi, during your tenure at our temple, was it the custom to stand during the Shema or sit during the Shema?" The rabbi thought for a long time, but he couldn't remember. "Let us ask the rabbi before me," he said.

So off they went, dug up the old rabbi in the nursing home, and asked him the question: "In our congregation, is it our tradition to stand during the Shema or sit during the Shema?"

The old rabbi thought for a long time. "It is not my recollection that our tradition was to sit during the Shema," he said finally.

The standees were exultant, but their delight was short-lived as the old rabbi lifted his hand in warning. "In my recollection, it was not our tradition to stand during the Shema."

And the sittees were exultant, but only for a moment. "But Rabbi, if it is not our tradition to sit, and it is not our tradition to stand, what is our tradition?"

The old rabbi thought for a while and then spoke. "It is our tradition to ARGUE..."

[TheRightGuy]

I believe the Slimes owns the Chicago Trib.

Both are owned by Tribune Companies, as are the CUBS!

[MinuteGal]

The Chicago Tribune (Tribune Companies) is owned by the LA Slimes. We're proscribed from reproducing anything but excerpts from the Trib per the FR/LA Times/Washington Post settlement agreement.

Leni

[honeygrl]

"Well be that as it may Im not picking a fight with our dear moderator. "

If you go to "My Mail" and click "Compose" you can put "Admin Moderator" in the To field and ask them privately any question you need to ask.

[TheRightGuy]

The Chicago Tribune (Tribune Companies) is owned by the LA Slimes

vice-versa, leni
Tribune bought LA Times. Colonel McCormick be a twistin' an' a turnin' in his grave.

[MissAmericanPie]

You are a guest on this site. If the owner or his representative pulls a post promoting and pandering to a private web site, it takes alot of gall and rudeness to repost giving the web address against the wishes of the owner.

If you don't think so, you will find out soon enough what such crassness will earn a poster.

[MinuteGal]

You're correct, of course. I must have had an attack of dylexia when I breathlessly posted my scoop.

Leni

[Ignatz]

I certainly agree that this is Jim's website, and he may have posts removed as he sees fit. That being said, I would hope that most posts are not deleted because the mods "don't think we need that here".
Let the posts stay up; Freepers are perfectly capable of making distinctions between what is valuable and what is drivel, and dam#ed good at deconstructing the drivel.
Heck, we tear the major media's Liberal crap to pieces on a daily basis!
I understand your rant, FIC. Just don't think you have a right to post here. Only Jim does (though a discussion of the rights of donors to FR would be entertaining!).