Posted on 01/19/2011 10:00:05 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 01/19/2011 10:21:38 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
I'm placing this in breaking news, because there have been several breaking news complaint threads recently. Guess there are a lot of people not understanding the facts about FR, or what we stand for, where we're going, etc.
First of all, who reads FR and how many accounts do we have? I honestly have no idea and the exact number does not concern me. We currently have over 369,000 registered accounts on FR, but as someone pointed out yesterday, not all of them are active and I have no idea how many are active.
Many years ago we had less than 30,000 accounts registered. Then we hit a hundred thousand, a hundred fifty thousand, then two hundred thousand and three or four years ago we approached and went over 300,000. Every few years as we hit a major milestone in registered accounts, I updated our home page with the current number of accounts on FR. I'll probably do it again after we go over 400,000, then 500,000, etc, and maybe I won't. The number of registered accounts doesn't really mean much. And our growth in the last few years has tapered off anyway for various reasons.
Who actually reads FR? Again, we have no idea, but there are hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of readers. All kinds of people read FR. News hounds, liberals, conservatives, politicians, talk show hosts, religious types, atheists, you and me brother and everyone in between. We serve over 1,000,000 pageviews per day.
So why has our growth tapered off? Well, probably the primary reason is we've narrowed our point of view lately as we've moved away from just talking about the issues and have actually started becoming constitutional activists.
The time for talking is over. Now we need to walk the walk. Our focus has become closer to working on our primary goal which is a return to constitutionally limited government and a full restoration of our God-given unalienable rights.
We can't do that by being big tent, all things to all people, non-principled, two-talking politicians. If we are truly interested in advancing our traditional conservative pro-God, pro-family, pro-life, pro-country, pro-liberty principles and positions then we must reject the politicians and people supporting the other way.
As an organization, we cannot be both for and against homosexuality, abortion, big government, border and national security, etc. I don't know about others, but if we must choose, I choose to be on the right side of each and every issue. Why should FR use its limited resources to allow liberals, homosexualists, abortionists, big spenders, big taxers, big government solutions advocates, gun grabbers, pacifists, isolationists, environmentalists, open-borders lobbyists, etc, ply their trade on FR? Well, more and more lately, we don't. And, apparently, that has pissed off a lot of big tent, true blue RINO types and the herd is stampeding. Let them go.
We who share our common traditional conservative principles, values and goals will be better off in the long run. We need to build on our strengths and attract more traditional conservatives to our viewpoints than to water down and weaken our own. It just doesn't make sense to me to support politicians like Giuliani, Romney, Gingrich, et al, who have RINO/liberal track records. It doesn't make sense to allow abortionists, homosexualists, gun-grabbers, big-government solutionists, etc, to have free rein on FR to target and lambast us daily with their repugnant bile. Let them go.
FR will continue on the traditional God, family, country, life and liberty path. If it means fewer accounts or less growth, so be it. If it means we receive fewer in donations, so be it. We will adapt, improvise and overcome and I believe prosper (God willing) in the long run. And, hopefully, someday we can say that we helped restore our beloved republic and our Liberty!
Let’s see the flag graphic and we can ask Eska and Eye of Unk and Kathy-in-Alaska about the highway. Several others, too. I will go back to ping them to your post.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
DJ MacWoW and I want to know the name of the highway shown in her beautiful graphic.
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BTTT!
LOL!
I stand corrected. What a scary kitty!
I still wouldn’t mind scratch his neck until he pops his ears and purrs!
The Alaskan Highway... :-)
You’ll have to quote me on that one, MrEdd. I don’t mind reading posts by liberals if their reasoning is sound (which it tougher than it sounds), but I don’t like reading posts by conservatives that use pretzel logic, strained premises or false or misleading source, any more than I like to read it by liberals. In fact, because conservatism is so easy to justify by the facts, it is worse to see conservatives twist logic or simply apply ad hominems than to see liberals do it.
So, you find quotes by me in my posts that obstinantly promote liberalism or reconsider your last post.
And ... he would probably keep vermin out of the house too, eh?
Thank you, vox_freedom!!!
Awesome. 40 new taglines were just born...
God bless you, Jim Robinson for the stand you have taken. I believe you are correct in saying the time has come for all of us to stand for our ideals and principles and to reject those who have declared themselves enemies of moral values and common sense.
I appreciate FR as being a place I can communicate and fellowship with others who are like-minded, with a minumum of obscene attacks, both personal and political, from sexual perverts and those who actually have no standards of their own but enjoy attacking others for theirs.
Other sites who think they can allow the input of every derranged screwball who wishes to contribute their personal form of garbage will soon devolve into chaos and meaningless garbage. That format is actually preferrable to some types of people. There are inumerable choices such people have of sites to frequent on the internet that kowtow to such tripe and nonsense. As you have said, let them go. Good riddance!
Thankyou for keeping FR a place that is comfortable for Constitutional defending, free Americans to carry on a civil conversation.
I agree 100% with that, Jim. The time for arguing with libs and other degraded beings is long over. The revolution has begun!
In my particular case, you can’t spell freedom without “vox”
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Well that makes sense! lol
Your words have brought a tear to my eye and a prayer to my heart, JimRob. :~)
Absolutely. The house is the only lib-free zone in miles! It's kept that way depending on which cat is dealing with which vermin. Creepers and four-legged OR two legged!
We both have our assignment down pat. None of the above vermin would wish to come near the Mrs. Wham! is THE immediate answer ending in the demise of said creep.
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