Posted on 01/28/2002 5:19:40 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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
That would depend on how she looks in the pic, and the approach taken.
If (as I expect not) she is conseratively attired, it could serve to further conservatism.
If she is attired as I expect, and the comments have suggestions for a more conservative look, that too could further conservatism.
Of course, I'm shooting in the dark here. I don't like to wait for pix to load so I don't usually open those kinds of posts. I can only imagine what people are suggesting she do with herself.
Of course, I'm shooting in the dark here.
ROTFL. Yes, you are, and I would suggest night vision goggles.
I'm glad to see this thread posted once again as it's obvious many have not seen it. I consider myself a guest at Free Republic and plan to act accordingly. The wit and wisdom of the other guests just makes my visits more enjoyable.
Thank you all and thank you Jim Robinson.
But then again, there may be the possibility of the apple not falling far from the tree...People might be anticipating that pre-emptively.
Thanks for the forum and the opportunity to express opinions and debate others. I hope all is well with you and Free Republic, an excellent website and popular destination.
My best wish is that FR remains a watchdog over corruption and revisionists who would ignore the thoughts of our founding fathers and the guidance they provided in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
God Bless America!
I understand 'bashing' when it comes to actions, not when it comes to physical attributes. There is no line to be drawn between the two because one has nothing to do with the other.
Heh. " Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln,
how was the play?"
The other day I posted a duplicate that also touched on some more of the issues you raise:
Raise the Fist web site taken down by Feds (my title)
It was a story about a web site that the Feds had taken down (as hopefully the title implies). The article was from Indymedia and their title seemed "made up" (for want of a better word) as well, so I made up a title that seemed to best fit the article and labeled it so. I usually use the title for keywords but in this case I didn't know what to do so I left it blank.
proud patriot also posted the article: traitor's site raided by the FBI
I thought the article was highly relevant as it covered constitutional issues (some of which are of direct concern to the operation of FR), the ongoing war and the Patriot Act. The discussion was quite lively and I felt that it was a good, thought provoking thread- at least mine was ;-).
My questions was, was this an acceptable source and what could proud patriot and I have done to ensure there was no double posting? Also, when inventing keywords for a post, should there be a comma/semicolon between words, should a space come after the comma/semicolon (sometimes search machines read the space as a character). Could you give us some insight or a protocol for keywords and how to make them more relevant?
One last issue. I like photos, but I dread clicking on a thread that I know will have them because they inevitably take a long time to load. Is there someway you could work out a way to store thumbnails on the FR server that a person could use for the article instead of the full image? The poster could link the thumbnail to the image source on a remote host, like I've done on my Freeper Page. You could maybe give each poster, say- 50- 100 kilobytes for thumbnail storage and when they reach their limit and want to post a new image, they'd have to delete one from their store. Then you could ban full sized images altogether. What I see as an advantage here is, even if a poster went and deleted the thumb from an article, since it was created as a link, the link to the remote image would still work and a reader could hopefully still view the images in an archived article. And of course the article would load faster with thumbs. Just a thought.
Mr. Robinson has no reason to be bound (or even interested) by my definition of conservatism, but we are going to have flamewars and mutual insult threads until there is some working definition, stated in terms of the post 9-11 situation, to serve as a guideline. The flames and insults come about because we have totally irreconcilable views on matters of basic principle here, all claiming to be true conservatism.
Some of these differences weren't so much to the fore before 9-11 -- the issues were different. Except for the Allen Keyes, theology and libertarian threads much of the flaming and insults I see are on threads to do with terrorism and Israel. That's where 9-11 has brought to the surface a difference in principle that wasn't so obvious during the Clinton era. For example, we have had numerous posters compare Palestinian suicide bombers to the Founding Fathers. I don't think there is any way to argue constructively over the gap that opens up.
So you'd rather just not listen? Or is the stage not big enough? That's my question.
Parallel posts are repetitive only in the original posting: the replies are always distinct.
Were they not we're just parrots.
What say Polly?
I'll take your place :)
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