Posted on 09/07/2011 9:13:46 AM PDT by BearCreek
The one question that most perplexed the Norwegian TV crew that was interviewing me in my living room was "Why, after so long a time, is abortion still such a desperate controversy here in the United States?" Their experience in Europe gave them few clues. After all, abortion had come to most Western European countries, been rapidly accepted and was now off the political agenda altogether. So they were sincerely trying to figure out why four decades had elapsed since abortion had begun to be legalized in the U.S. and yet abortion was still, as Jan described, "issue number one for America's people."
(Excerpt) Read more at vitalsignsblog.blogspot.com ...
Jim Rob on bloggers:
"I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR.
If a blogger can’t or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights with our participants over it, then I’d just as soon he doesn’t post here.
It’s not my job to make his content or his presentation or cooperation acceptable to our readers.
That’s his job.
And if he cannot do it or refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.
“Think there will be any Norwegians left in Norway in a hundred years?”
If Ayn Rand is close to the truth (in AS) regarding how liberals view their lives - or their legacy, you would get a blank look when asking the above question.
The main objective of the liberal is that no one should value their life or enjoy living independent of the expense of others.
IOW - abortion is child-sacrifice to the god of self.
LLS
* Unlike the current Hostile Occupier of the Oval Office, the Founding Fathers understood that a moral and religious people meant the Judeo-Christian religion with the foundation of the Ten Commandments of God the Creator.
Sorry Vendome, but contributing to a site doesn’t make copyright theft legal, moral, or ethical.
If FreeRepublic wants to be pay-to-play, then why don’t they just specifically come out and say so?
Honestly, BearCreek, I’d just post your material elsewhere. Free Republic’s policy is either give them free content or don’t post at all. There are other places that are more blog friendly that you can post to instead. FR is sort of a waste of time for bloggers, due to the steal-or-squeal shakedown policy.
But we're perfectly cool with using FR resources to support MSM business plans.
Because to do otherwise would result in massive lawsuits of the type that individual bloggers couldn't initiate.
Jim Robinson's statement on bloggers does not in any way, shape, form or fashion constitute copyright theft and you need to stop saying it.
You’re all over the place. In most cases bloggers are posting content about events from other syndicated news sources. Frequently they are the ones using the fair use laws to their benefit.
This isn’t about requiring a blogger to post the source to his blog. Its about the blogger using FR in an attempt to drive traffic to their blog.
Sometimes its ok, sometimes its blatant and annoying.
Well, yeah it does, actually.
If you don’t like FR, why don’t you just take a freaking hike. Run your own damned railroad.
Perhaps so - in which case the blogger may be treading into some legal hifgh water his or herself.
However, for content (such as this post) which is original, that completely and utterly does not apply.
This isn’t about requiring a blogger to post the source to his blog. Its about the blogger using FR in an attempt to drive traffic to their blog.
That's sort a "sneaky" argument, however. Technically, anytime a blogger posts, they're "driving traffic to their blog." Since you've already said that in some cases this is okay, then why demand that all bloggers refrain from excerpting, even in the "Blogger" section?
Because I do like Free Republic, but still nevertheless feel free to express my opinion about things, regardless of who likes or doesn't like it.
Uh, because killing off your future is a big deal.
No society will ever survive by murdering their future generations.
If a blogger doesn’t want his material posted here, he shouldn’t post it. Blog pimping is unwelcome. Can’t make it any plainer than that.
you need to fill that hollowed edifice on your shoulders with something more substantial than sand.
The community decides neighborhood policies and I view Blog Pimping as theft of resources, littering and graffiti.
If one blog pimps on FR we who have a vestes interst in the community can ask for a simple compliance, demand it or outright remove it.
We spend our loot to keep this place just way it is and the standards the way they are.
Bloggers in no way contribute to the community and rarely engage in any discourse of the topic they post.
Their only interest is to “use” FR as their free resource and that is flat out wrong.
Kapisch?
Killing babies is wrong. Murder for convenience is wrong. Period.
It's easier to imagine as a sacrifice to the god Moloch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
I’m still a bit confused. Sorry. The complaint is that I posted a link to the original post and that would drive traffic to my blog. Instead you would rather I post the entire post, no matter the length? That’s fine with me if it’s fine with you.
I do not, as has been suggested, have much of a “business plan” for the blog. There are no ads there and it generates no revenue. It is just a part of what I do in my capacity as Director of a pro-life organization. It’s the content of the article that I’m concerned with and, yes, having another site where it was available seemed like a good thing. But that certainly doesn’t mean it needs to be read at the blog. But why then the boxes in the form about excerpts? What am I supposed to enter there?
Of course, if I’m still not understanding FR’s purposes or procedures correctly, or if I have in some way (innocently, I assure you) broken the rules here. I apologize and will quietly withdraw.
Thanks all for your attempts to clarify the matter.
Yeah, that’s fine.
Post the content and your link.
At the end of each post you might sign off with something like:
For more deep thinking visit my site
or something like that.
We generally give the benefit of the doubt to a new poster who may not understand online communities and the ones with a self serving agenda make it pretty clear, real quick.
There have been many other posters who blog and have gone on to what look like lucrative careers and they started here.
Dave Weinbaum is a good example. He started here and eventually picked up his own radio show.
See here:
http://www.daveweinbaum.com/
I think Michelle Malkin even posted here at one time.
They didn’t have any agenda further than giving their own opinion but they got noticed and now have successful ventures.
Good Luck.
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