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This place is getting more like facebook and twitter, stealthly deleting posts for not stated reasons. Sometimes whole topics. You don't know they're gone until you browse your comments and find they don't exist anymore. Way to go censors. 20+ year guy here and i will say this is a new level of low. Read it while you can, i am sure whoever's deleting comments tonight will not want to have this out there.

Anyone else experience this? It's just on Free Republic only.

Am I the only one having problems connecting to Free Republic today?

 10. Blog hawking (I know, I know, we're supposed to be nice.)  9. Run-on, single-paragraph posts 8. Pings to Jim Robinson with kiss ass complements 7. Posting "hugh and series", "stuned beeber" or "Bush's fault" 6. A post asking a noOb if they are sure they're logged in 5. Passive-aggressive keyword epithet war 4. Satire posts that fool you (the rest are hilarious) 3. Viking Kitties (just kidding... love ya'... really...  who'd poke fun at you...  rah roh.) 2. Vanities 1. ...

The former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has chastised the presiding judge at his trial over alleged ill-treatment at the hands of his guards. His trial on charges relating to a Shiite massacre in 1982 has been adjouned until December 5. Wearing a white shirt and dark suit, Saddam berated chief judge Rizgar Amin over his treatment at the high-security court. The former dictator complained that his guards had forced him to walk to court up four flights of stairs, and had handcuffed him, making it hard for him to carry a copy of the Koran. The court also heard video...