Veracity of info on Free Republic?

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[hawk1]

Recently discovered Free Republic forum and have found article after article containing some of the most unbelievable stories concerning American interests and values. Are these stories really true? If so the United States needs to look no further than within its own borders for state sponsored terrorism. Seems to be a recurrent theme on immigration and American traditions and values. Recently watched a CNN debate on whether the US should allow foreigners in the country if they say death to America. What??? One Georgetown professor said yes. Unreal.

[dep]

you think i'm kidding, but i'm not -- my account of tonight's iron chef, which will be broadcast in 90 minutes, was entirely accurate. they've really gone downhill, from the voice they now have for chairman kaga, which sounds like bela lugosi, to the theme ingredients. gone are the days of large, live octopi, or (my personal favorite) the carp battle in which -- still not making it up -- one of the guys covered the scales in sugar and deep fried them to make carp scale cookies. now they're down to milk; a couple of weeks ago it was carrots (including both carrot ice cream and carrot pudding). maybe they're just softening us up for the american version, which has william shatner as chairman kaga. i'm not making that up, either. it's enough to make one throw himself to the moose and die a terrible death. one last bite of cheese and adieu.

dep

[tacticalogic]

You've made too fine a distinction for me.

Start with the basics.

[lonnie]

What veracity?

You folks have managed to turn this place into a joke.

[JD86]

You have more patience than I do....all stupid people irritate me.

[mlo]

Welcome, pull up a comfy chair...

Not the comfy chair!

[VA Advogado]

Hey - at least he/she didn't post 'Bad American'.

Or bad Dog or bad Dog Gone. Love those guys.

[4CJ]

To understand the posts, you must 1st purchase your super-secret FreeRepublic.com decoder ring. Available in helicicopter-black, tinfoil-silver, or cheese-orange. Each ring is personally signed by JimRob with the inscription "All your base are belong to us".

[nopardons]

OUCH ! Out, out damned typo.

compilatio = compilation

BLUSH

[SpottedBeaver]

Have you been watching my attempts at cooking?

[RightWhale]

the first to post "breaking news".

It's the special much-coveted cyber-scoop certificate, which can be printed out, laminated, and framed.

Congratulations!
You are one pico-second closer to awareness of the present moment than almost anyone.
This status will last until the very next post.

[Tex-Con-Man]

As a general rule you should never believe anything Dog Gone says.

I, on the other hand, have never ever lied in my entire life.

[dep]

the first to post "breaking news".

though we mustn't forget the extra points if the breaking news is a vanity that has no actual relation to news, is not itself new, and is only tenuously connected to reality.

dep

[IronJack]

I can tell Shat from Shinola. I have trouble telling Libertaians from Heaven's Descendants. Arent' they really the same? Don't Libertarians counsel the throne of Heaven? If not, their prospectus lied. And Harry Browne is mortal.

[Penny1]

Recently discovered Free Republic forum and have found article after article containing some of the most unbelievable stories concerning American interests and values. Are these stories really true?

A great many articles posted here require a healthy amount of skepticism--don't believe everything you read. However, it does give you a wider understanding of just how crazy some groups of people are--here in the US and abroad.

If you pay attention to the discussions that follow the articles, usually someone will provide any necessary debunking--sometimes it's logical debunking, and sometimes it just consists of ridiculing the poster and/or the publication being referenced, LOL.

Welcome to FR, and be sure to check out the Welcome Center and Information Desk

Oh, and you'll want to track down a reliable source of tin-foil, you'll need it around here. ;)

-penny

[brat]

Welcome aboard, hawk1!

[Flyer]

Now that you have a few replies to your question I bet things are really clear to you now. Welcome.

[tacticalogic]

Its the libertarians I have a problem with. I can't handle both at the same time. :)

22 posted on 11/30/01 7:58 PM Pacific by VA Advogado

I have trouble telling Libertaians from Heaven's Descendants. Arent' they really the same? Don't Libertarians counsel the throne of Heaven? If not, their prospectus lied. And Harry Browne is mortal.

53 posted on 11/30/01 9:47 PM Pacific by IronJack

Capitalization is important. There is a difference between libertarian and Libertarian, just like there is a difference between democratic and Democratic or representative and Representative. If you have trouble telling the difference, I think it's probably a case of can't and don't want to being interchangable.

[Rebelbase]

"Debka? Ananova and others? "

Debka makes Ananova look like Fox News.

[IronJack]

Capitalization is important.

you DON'T saY.