In my opinion this site is much less active than it was in the early days.

06/11/11 | b.b.e.b.

[Fiddlstix]

I remember how you (you specfically) could always provide a song here (midi file) but I don’t think you can do that any more (have music play when you first open a link). I hope you are doing well, and I agree with everything you say about FR.

Yes you can
It works now better than ever and lots of FReepers are using the technique. They just don't link to "midi" files now. They "link" to anything they can think of. lol

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Here's the original post that started the whole thing going

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Click the Pic

Let's
Get
This
Party
Going!

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I made that same post with the same music on the 2nd Quarter FReepaThon 2001. EVERYBODY went "nuts" over it. I couldn't believe it. It's so simple to do and yet nobody ever thought to do it before then.
After all, it's only a simple line of html code. That line of code can be used to link to another thread or site as well as a midi, wav, mp3 file. Whatever. It is most commonly used these days on the FRepaThons to link to the donations page.

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A couple of minor changes and you get this:

Click the Pic

Let's
Get
This
Party
Going!

If you click the pic on this one it will open to the donation page.
I don't even remember how many people I sent that line of code to and/or instructed them how to use it to make their own posts.
Man O Man, That brings back memories. It doesn't seem it 10 years ago but it was

I'm still around reading the threads but I don't post much these days.

Good to see you still online. I hope everything is well with you.

God Bless

[Texas Fossil]

I am a Palin fan and have great respect for her and her family.

I hope you are correct. There is a lot of work to be done after we kick these Commie Bastards A$$es.

[Twinkie]

I am so conflicted by GWB that I cannot express it. On the one hand, he stood and delivered when it came to the war on terror, stood and called it what it was “The War on Terror” in capital letters and was a far superior patriot than what we are now blessed with.

On the other hand, he was a bit naive; seeming only to want to see the good in others (which is a good trait most times, but the old adage to be wise as a serpent, as harmless as a dove is also wisdom in some quarters). Before he was elected, he took pride with how he had “reached across the aisle and worked with the opposition” which at the time sounded good, but he went too far in that game in my opinion.

When the “opposition” kept on spouting lies; there were times he needed to DEFEND himself. The fact that he didn’t in the least at times made him appear to not be living in reality, and didn’t seem a normal reaction. - You’re right. He should have cleaned house when he came in; the liberals would have squawked, but they squawked anyway. Nothing less than the truth now will suffice. Now, Obama is STILL seeking to pin everything on “Bush”, and that has at this late date become preposterous.

[Cincinna]

Do you all still remember one of my favorite FReepers, Quidam, and his tsunami?
He was a great hoaxster & took many for a ride!

[oblomov]

>>The sooner we figure out how to resolve that, the better.

What do you think the correct resolution of the issue is? I struggle with this issue myself. Ten years ago, I was certain that free trade was an unalloyed good. Now, I am convinced that it is not.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

“He didn’t trash FR. He spoke about how FR trashes him.”

What a thin-skinned crybaby. You never see Rush or Levin whining about their critics.

[WVNan]

Yes, she was a Marine and much more. She was a survivor of a kidney disease that was considered fatal. They gave her six months to live. That was twenty years before she finally succumbed. She was a fighter and the most spiritual woman I’ve ever met. She was 100% positive about all things. A joy be be around and full of wisdom. The absolute bestest Sistah a girl ever had. We were both Southern girls who were raised pretty much the same way. We were/are the same age and our memories were the same. We both moved a lot and saw many of the same places. So much in common. She was the best friend I ever had next to my husband. You should go read some of her old posts. Always filled with positive wisdom.

[EDINVA]

“I have often said, that was the day [failing to convict Clinton in the Senate] that the left declared war on America.”

I would beg to differ. I would submit that the left publicly declared war on America when Reagan nominated Bork to the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the internet then, or talk radio, or any ‘new media.’ All we had were the alphabets/WaPo/NYT and legacy media. Cable existed but wasn’t as common in households as it is today.

I’ve got a few years on me, and had never seen anything like what the left did to, and got away with against Bork. It was done with help from a few Republicans, including the worm John Warner who was then my Senator.(after 1987 and until his retirement, during Warner’s reelection bids I always wrote in “Robert Bork”)

The behavior was so outrageous, it even led to a new term, “Borking,” as in trashing and vilifying political opponents by any and all means possible. The country has never been the same since.

[oblomov]

To be fair, the left was outraged by the appointment of Bork because of Bork’s role in the Watergate saga.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Those are terrific! Thanks. I won’t ask how you did it because I have no purpose for the technique right now. I’ll have forgotten how to do it by the time a purpose arises! LOL

[EDINVA]

Let’s take a walk down memory lane, shall we ?

“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is —and is often the only— protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy... President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.”

Fair? Using “Bork,” “the left,” and “fair” in the same sentence is simply outrageous, unless you were to say “the left was never fair to Bork.” That might at least be a start.

[Fiddlstix]

Almost every graphic I post is linked in some way. Even the little "smiley face" has a link to a wav file

Heck half the freepers know how it's done anymore. Here's the code for the smiley:

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<a href="http://home.granderiver.net/~capnjim/fun/feelgood.wav" target=" _blank"><img src="http://home.granderiver.net/~capnjim/smiley/happy.gif" alt="Go Ahead: Click It!" border=0></a>

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Just copy that code and paste it to see it work. It's easy. Anybody can do it.

I don't always post my now boring "Click The Pic" anymore. I figured anybody who sees me post with a graphic knows by now to click it. lol

Copy and save that basic snippet of code to a notepad and save it for future use. Or for reference, whatever.....

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Okay, now you'll ask how I made the < and the > appear. Well, that's easy to:
I did it like this: Use &lt; to get the < and use the &gt; to get the >

So, how did I get it to do that. Easy again

Like this: &:amp:lt; to get &lt: which gets this <

So now there you have it. lol

Click The Pic
Enjoy

[afraidfortherepublic]

THanks. Don’t stop posting those — there’s new people all the time, and some of us old timers “fer-git”.

[CharlyFord]

If one goes to dictionary.com and enters "Bork" as a word search, one gets:

–verb (used with object)
to attack (a candidate or public figure) systematically, especially in the media.

The attack on Robert Bork was intense that it introduced a new word(concept) to our language. The left did the same thing to George Bush(43) but he didn't resist. Now the left is doing it again to Sarah Palin. You'd think that the sheep would catch on and ignore them. But no, the sheep just keep following along.

[A. Patriot]

If you're being attacked so much that you have to voice a beef about it, I'd say that you're probably off the reservation, and that the community is letting you know that.

I am sure your are correct to a point, however personal attacks in place of reasoned debate is what I am talking about. I really haven't been attacked much here, but that particular thread really suprised me.

[A. Patriot]

What is getting under my skin lately is the 'RINO police.' Everyone is a RINO: DeMint, West, Bachmann... offer a name and someone throws the RINO card.

I agree. It's a divide and conquer stratagy and some people fall into the trap. Now, if someone has valid reasons why some of these people shouldn't get our support, I would like to hear them. Not just that they are a RINO.

I hate to say it, but there probably will not be a perfect conservative candidate. IMHO, 4 more years of the Obominaton will totally destroy this country as we have known it. Therefore, ANY conservative is better than BHO.

[Mr. K]

Because the site is not growing or progressing

JimRob insists he will continue to go begging each quarter instead of commericalizing the site- I thought wil LOVED capitalism around here?

I think this should be a multi-million dollar site (bigger than salon.com and huffington post comnbined)

But he insists he does not want to ‘sell out’ (to “the man” or something..) by taking money. I don’t know why they have to be mutually exclusive

He should be a millionaire for having the genius to create this site.

[EDINVA]

The left/media are really one hateful, vicious crowd. When you think of it, even before Bork, their prototype was James Watt. Recall how his use of the word “cripple” led to a media frenzy and ultimately his resignation. Once that worked for him, they carried it several steps further with Bork.

We’ve come a long way since then with the ‘new media’ but too many remain dependent on and, worse, believe, the legacy media.

[rdb3]

Discuss anyone else and they'll go scored-earth: you must be a RINO and your candidate is a stalking-horse for Romney, be warned or we'll call for a zot. I exaggerate, perhaps, but not by much.

No! You're NOT exaggerating at all.

You nailed it!

If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.

Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.

Do it!

[Eva]

It’s true, now. There is very little real discussion. I know that the discussion turned nasty during that last election, but the election was nasty.