"We're waiting...!"
Posted on 05/26/2014 5:44:46 PM PDT by xzins
Free Republic gets about 40,000 unique hits a day. Going to the state donor numbers, we get about 2300 donors. That is about a 5.5% rate of readers to donors.
My testimony is that Free Republic is the best website on the internet. Notice that I didn't say, "the best conservative, small government, pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Gun, etc." website. That is true, but Free Republic is more.
I just had a near real time discussion with a FRiend on freepmail.
I've had zero pop-ups, ads, thefts, etc. since 1998. It was all discussion all the time. Where else do you get that? I’ve used my credit card in our secure system also since 1998 and I’ve never had a problem. Target, Michaels, and Neiman Marcus should be so good.
This is the best discussion software ever created. Bar none. I can track every comment I've made, every response to it, and I can reply and reply again and again and again. All of that without the dreaded outline gradually indenting until all that remains is the right side of the screen page.
There are links back to previous comments, there are links that bring up all responses to a comment.
It amazes me how much like a conversation Free Republic is.
AND, we have a moderator staff dedicated both to free expression AND to maintaining the conservative identity of Free Republic and to banging heads when necessary. They get their marching orders from our main man, Big Jim Thompson, who, with his brother Matt Dillon, keeps the riffraff liberal troll deadbeats away from our town.
So, if you're part of the 94%, then Mitt Romney was talking about you. It got him in trouble.
It'll probably get me in trouble.
Brother, can you spare even a dime?
Your comment reminds me of the famous line from The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, a then-groundbreaking 1997 essay touting the benefits of open source computing as Linux began to roll out. Instead of relying solely on a closed system of programmers, open source would allow a global array of users to make rapid improvements:
[Eric S.] Raymond's proposition [is] that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (which he terms Linus's Law): the more widely available the source code is for public testing, scrutiny, and experimentation, the more rapidly all forms of bugs will be discovered."
The same principle that applied to driving the bugs out of computer programs seems to apply here, as well, for in-depth news analysis. The comments on this site are a great way to drive inaccuracies out of the usual biased reportage.
That is such an awesome post, Albion. It truly is a “Wow!”
Debugging the news....You have created a new expression.
Just Wow!
"We're waiting...!"
‘I’m not catholic, by the way. Just an observer.’
Neither am I but I have had good experiences while at the Abbey of Gethsemani, it is spelled with an i on the coffee cup that I purchased there so I am going with it, all the other words are in Latin so that may be why.
I know the Abbot there and once asked him if he had been a drill sergeant at one time, he said no, he joined the order at the age of 16. Discipline is pretty strict there, it is a non speaking order, only in certain places and situations are they allowed to speak. Hardest thing I ever did was try to keep my big mouth shut for a weekend.
They are Trappists and make the best cheese you can find. They cannot turn away anyone who comes to their door and house and feed you well. If you wish to pay you are allowed to and I always pay what I figure it would cost in a decent hotel and pay extra for food.
The grounds are huge, some they cultivate themselves, some they lease out to local farmers. I have heard it is anywhere from 2000 to 3000 acres. It has hiking trails all over it and several peaceful spots set aside for reflection. I once asked an 80 year old monk, Merton was his mentor by the way, why they had such lousy singers. He told me the good ones died off. They are buried in front of the monastery with small metal crosses with their names and date of birth and death only. They are humble in life and death.
No, that would be you!
Freepmail for you!
Me too, small Beretta with the tip barrel. Accurate at 5 feet any farther and you best be a fast runner. This is my church gun.
Wow, lots of information. I think I will cut and paste it into a Word file for future reference.
We liked both states a lot, and found a lot of similarities in the kind and polite people. I had to pick up my husband from the Nashville airport at two o’clock and would be kicked out of our hotel an hour away at eleven. I didn’t want to have to wait at the airport in the heat and sense I brought my yorkie with me on the trip, our options were limited. So I just drove very very slow on the freeway. I didn’t get one single finger, wasn’t tailgated at all, wasn’t even honked at. Here in California, I would’ve gotten all that and probably run off road as well.
We went to near Harrodsburg, but missed the Shakers. Looks like that will call for a return trip ;)
yard sales needing a license? That’s absurd! Even here in the socialist state of California they don’t do that. I wonder if they do in Tennessee?
I do worry about a bunch of liberals moving in, since East Tennessee in East Kentucky are so beautiful. But we specifically chose the Tri-Cities area since it is somewhat a low income area. Thought that would keep out those who have to have granite and McMansions.
Thanks for all the valuable information!
Chuckey!
In my searches on Zillow to find a property, I have found several in Unicoi that fit our requirements. I am looking forward to going to that store.
thx.
That whole area is just beautiful. I have been a desert rat for fifty years; it is time for me to be where it is green now!
I also prefer the hills/mountains. So I think we are concentrating on the Tri-Cities area in East Tennessee.
But not being from there, I thought I would get input from others who actually know the area or maybe somewhere different that I have not even thought of.
Very nice post.
I'm in NY state, a foreign communist country. I sure hope that you find a slice of America to live in. :-)
Maybe we'll be neighbors someday. :-) You will absolutely love that store.
Rugers LCR 32Special. Such a nice pocket pistol. For all I know, it’s accurate to 25 yards. I, on the other hand, am accurate to about 10 feet. :>)
The laser is scary, though. Put the light on someone, and they think that’s where the bullet is going. The laser reaches out really far.
I was looking for a Beretta Tomcat that is a .32 ended up with a Bobcat .25. Very good little pocket pistol, with the tilt barrel you can have one in the tube with no problem, pull the hammer back and pull trigger. I had all three of the tilt barrels at one time and sold them, I have had the Rugers also and also sold them.
Normally like the big guns but when the preacher asked me to pack I knew I couldn’t bring my SuperRedHawk, a little to conspicuous for the task. Five packing counting the preacher all at entrances. Way things are getting not a bad idea.
Never used a laser always figured that if I could see the light they could follow it back. Didn’t seem like a good idea, but if they can’t I am in.
Revolver is more my speed, I am fairly good with any 4 inch barrel or longer, stubnose not so much.
When I tested for concealed carry they set the target at 21 feet saying that was the decision point, fire or you may be dead. Seems a little far to me, most times pulling it is all that is needed.
How does a Buckeye know when he is close to being out of ammo, since counting much pass 3 is a major undertaking for most I have met?
Shakertown has rooms to let and they are as they were in the day. Only thing I didn’t like was the damned memory foam mattress, hard to roll over.
They serve all three meals during the day and the include things like pickled watermelon rind, an acquired taste. They grow most of the things they serve. Supper is by candlelight and the servers wear period clothes. Nice place.
The village is basically a living museum and you will learn that these people led a simple lifestyle but were anything but simple. One thing I like is the separate entrances, men on one side women on the other, and never shall they meet but of course they did. Very inventive folks, at one time they were the largest producer of seed in the US. During the War of Northern Aggression they fed and cared for the soldiers on both sides.
Forgot to mention the Derby, Mammoth Cave, festivals in every small town, Knob Creek Shooting Range, bring your own machine gun or they will rent you one, underground coal mines you can tour, below the Falls of the Cumberland you can white water raft or canoe, and the Red River Gorge and Natural Bridge, if you are crazy enough to try it rock climbing is available in the Gorge.
Tons of uncontrolled airfields in Ky., skydiving is offered at some. I guess they still offer tours of the old Capitol Building in Frankfort, worth the time. Civil war reenactments and Indian reenactments abound and the good guys most time win.
If you like music there is Renfro Valley just off I 75 when you enter the mountains for country and bluegrass. Elvis used to play there, doesn’t now but still drops by occasionally. Loretta Lynn still plays there though she has to sing while seated, her son and granddaughters or great grands sing with her. Loretta might should retire she still sounds good but not as good as in ‘70 when I first saw her.
Blues and jazz in Lewavulle and Lexington. Lexington also has Keenland for racing and The Red Mile for harness racing. If you like to watch the blue headed women lose their money, 15 minutes from Lewavulle in Indiana there are casinos. If you like serious gambling about any small mountain town will have a high stakes poker game and guards with shotguns stationed at the windows and doors provide the ambiance. The beer is free.
Churches are everywhere and some even have a few Christians that attend. Snake handling is allowed even encouraged in some but be sure and sit close to a window, just in case.
Almost forgot Thunder over Lewavulle everything from steamboat racing to a huge airshow. There is a Nascar track in Trimble county where they run real fast and can only make left hand turns, I have never understood that sport. Part of Thunder is the balloon race pretty to look at, I prefer wings and a prop myself.
Henry Clay’s house, Ashland is available for tours in Lexington, and his brother or uncle’s place, I forget which is just outside of Richmond. His name was Cassius Clay and he didn’t hold with paying property taxes, when the accessor would come by the old boy had a swivel cannon mounted on a balcony and would take a few shots at him.
Almost forgot court days in Mt. Sterling. You can buy anything from a good coon dog to your very own antique cannon. Everybody should have one of those.
If you run out of things to do you can always try and track down the Blue People of Eastern Ky.
Tenn. is a nice place too.
Methinks Free Republic would get more donations if its moderators didn’t listen to the small rude, obnoxious and hate filled cabal of paranoids whose mission in life is to witch hunt off the website those they deem to be “trolls.”
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