Vanity Post on Vanity Posts, Duplicate Posts, Trash Posts, Commie Propaganda, etc., Vol V, No. 1

Free Republic | Jan 25, 2002 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Way too many vanity threads lately. And way too much trash being posted. Please try to stay on topic (politics). Also, please do a search on a significant word from the title of your article before posting. This will reduce the number of duplicates. And, along these same lines, please use the original titles on your article posts. Do NOT edit the titles. Do NOT use "My Title" titles. This will also help to reduce the number of duplicates.

And, whatever else you do, please DO NOT post from DEMOCRATS UNDERGROUND (or any other such trashy un-American socialist hangout). Free Republic was intended to be a socialist free zone. We've gone to a heck of a lot of trouble to make it that way. Why in the world would you think we would be interested in having their trash posted here?

And QUIT trashing each other. You know who you are. Knock it off! Way too many flamewars and feuds going on. And, while I'm thinking about it, QUIT trashing our conservative candidates. If you want to criticize someone's position on some policy, have at it. But do not trash or smear the man. That would include Browne, Buchanan, Bush, Keyes, et al, or whomever else may be your favorite trashee (examples listed in alphabetical sequence). The idea is to get more conservatives elected, not to trash the ones you don't like. If you want to trash someone, make it a Democrat. Thank you.

And QUIT dredging up old communist propaganda to smear our conservatives. Sheesh! Whatever else you may think about our guys, they did not hijack airliners full of people and crash them into buildings. No, my friends, not even the dreaded CIA. Anyone who would believe (or even suspect) that crap is no FReeper. I've been pulling this crap whenever I see it and several people have been banned for continuing to post it. I do not want it on Free Republic. Any current FR poster who believes this leftist propaganda, please logoff immediately, send me your resignation via email, and I will delete your account.

Thanks,

Jim

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Already posted here

[FreeReign]

The judgement of SentryoverAmerica: For the third time (maybe fourth time) got to the White House site or the Office of Management and Budget site. Bush did submit a budget last year. And Bush's budget was triple the rate of inflation.

My cursory read of the 2002 budget (Bush's first):

Descretionary spending increase +4.0%
Descrestionary spending increase without military spending + 3.1%
Rate of Inflation (2001, not including Energy spike) +2.7%
Population increase in U.S. +1.5%

Spending increases by department
Agriculture -1.4
Commerce -0.4
Defense +14.1
Education +4.6
Energy -0.5
HHS +2.8
HUD +1.9
Interior -0.4
Interntl Affairs+1.2
Justice -1.1
Labor -0.6
Transportation -2.1
Treasury -0.7
Vet Affairs +1.0
Corp of Eng. -0.6
EPA -0.2
FEMA -0.2 (NWO Power Brokers)
NASA +0.3
Nat. Sci Fd. +0.1
Sm Bus Admin +0.3
SSA +0.3

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Can you do another thread (more of a classroom exercise) on the proper usage of the "Search" feature, and how to do a search for articles so duplicate posts might happen less? Might have to start with "Class, this is your mouse..."

[Dales]

I am not really arguing Sentry's point here, because I agree with his general premise, which is that the Republicans have not stemmed the tide of governmental growth effectively at all.

However, adjusting for inflation is not sufficient to give a real indication, Sentry. You also have to adjust for population growth.

One thing that has to be understood is that while conservatives have held a lot of sway in the Republican party, we have not been the overwhelming majority in the Republican party often, if ever. But we are a lot closer to accomplishing that than we are to accomplishing something such as turning a third party into a viable option.

[FreeReign]

When conservative candidates incline against conservative principles, what should be the response of Freepers?

Constructive criticism.

[Happygal]

I always do a search before posting an article. But sometimes when the titles are changed they don't show up. So yeah, I'm definitely guilty of posting duplicates..but it's certainly not intentional!

All my trashy posts are though ;-P

[Dales]

Given that the democrats have gone almost 100% liberal I don't know if that distinction can be made today

This is true. A "conservative" Democrat is a relative term. At best such a beast would be in reality a centrist, and other than Zell Miller I am not sure I can think of any (and he is not as conservative as he has been playing lately, unless he has changed his stripes from his days as my Governor when I lived down there).

Today's Democrats are liberals, socialists, and communists. And those to the left of them make up the Nader/Green Party goons.

[TomServo]

He already gave instructions here. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

[BluesDuke]

I agree. These “cute” play on words get tiring, after awhile, and they are not even funny or in most cases cleaver.

Affirmed. Then we cleaver unto this: Never again shall we call the extinguished Senator from South Dakota Senator Douchebag...

[FreeReign]

*Discretionary*

[John SBM]

I promise never to refer to the distinguished gentleman as Senator Dasshole, but I can't recall seeing it spelled any other way, so I'm not sure how else to spell it!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Yep, I had one today.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I have it bookmarked already, too. But how many people will take the time to search for a thread about how to, or reminding to, search? See the irony here?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

A "conservative" Democrat

Definition: A person ashamed to be a Democrat but lacks the integrity to change.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

See post 414. Thoughts?

[John SBM]

I thought a conservative Democrat was one with only one hand in your wallet.

[Texaggie79]

This is my mouse, this is my gun, this is for FReeping, this is for fun.....

[TomServo]

I used bump it every so often. I gave up though because so many people just post without searching anyway. Most just don't care. I used to nail folks for double-posting, but now I just hit the 'abuse' button and let the moderators handle it.