Posted on 04/20/2005 9:22:15 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
I'll keep this short and simple. After six years of membership on FR I've decided to resign from the forum today. I'll keep checking my freepmail for a few days and wind down my posts here, so if any of you wish to contact me please do so there and I will provide you with a means to do so. I hope to continue future posting activities elsewhere - perhaps a blog - but only time will tell.
It's truly been a blast and left me with many fond memories, but all good things had to come to an end. My favorites comprise a long list, the most noted being the exposition of Rathergate, leading freeps of Algore in the 2000 recounts, protesting Hildebeast's book tour, and giving her impeached husband a freeper's welcome to Texas on several of his visits. Thank you to all who made these events fun and entertaining. Unfortunately the past few months have made it clear to me that FR and I are drifting apart on key issues of conservatism. I'll spare the details, pausing only to state that it isn't just the usuals like illegal immigration, but also things like religion, the culture of political correctness, an overall decline in reasoned civil conversation that used to flourish here, and the purposes and uses of the site in general. More concerning, for the past few months I have been unable to even obtain rational discourse and commentary on many routine threads and issues without being personally maligned and attacked - many times out of the blue and on topics unrelated to the given thread - by a small, petty-minded, and vitriolic group of posters who conduct themselves in a manner unbefitting of what this forum used to be when I joined in 1999, and do so with apparent impunity.
I also find that I simply don't have the time to post as much as I once did, and regrettably so.
I'll leave it at that, as my fond memories outweigh the unpleasant ones. A time arises when parting courses on friendly terms is best before something less desirable arises. Therefore I have volunteered my resignation. To everyone who has made my FR experience enjoyable, I thank you and wish you only the best.
We (and FR as a site) would all do better to stop taking our eyes off the REAL enemy - the Left - domestic and foreign.
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pr-) or o·pus·es"For Petes sake go make some freepin MONEY... "- Pope Pipeus I
What a teaser, none of the pics showed up, all I got was a lousy red XXX.
Apparently it didn't.
and the defense rests in record time!
"Got proof, or are you just talking out your ass about people no longer here? Name names, provide a link, or be shown as a liar."
Yeah, I've got proof, I could post links, but if I told you I chose not to blow the whistle then, why would I now?
Personally, I don't care if you believe it or not, and I have done nothing to merit your juvenile outburst. Get lost.
Don't sweat it, you're doing fine.
Good advice:
"why don't you do like most people and just ignore the "small, petty-minded, and vitriolic group of posters"? I usually just blithely skate right on by their posts."
Oh, give it a rest with your distortions and untruths. You have to know that there was no solid evidence that the patient wanted to be starved of all food and water, orally or otherwise.
This is such a lovely thread , no wonder GOP left, morons, I digress.
I returned to FR this week (with some lax posting prior to this) to post a "hit piece" from Houston's only daily paper to savage a critic of the Chronicle, the downtown corporate establishment (this was the paper that protected Ken Lay), and state's taxation policies.
What they were doing was very transparent, but those at FR might have been unaware such an attack was even launched as many Houstonian FReepers long ago cancelled their subscriptions and some have even tuned out on KSEV 700AM.
This same paper initiated "news" attacks on Tom DeLay YEARS ago (and an internally leaked memo tipped their hand).
I can certainly relate to that. It just seems to me that much of the vitriol and name calling hasn't been discouraged enough. And therefore they are tacitly encouraged. It isn't up to the posters to control the forum. But then that's just my opinion.
A finer opus was never scribed.
Well, you seemed to think it was important enough to mention weeks later, as a way of demeaning others.
Personally, I don't care if you believe it or not, and I have done nothing to merit your juvenile outburst.
Good. Then you won't mind if I say flat out that you are lying, and have no proof or you would have posted it.
Get lost.
Gladly. I have little use for people who spread falsehoods.
Funniest thing I've read all day and that includes lazamataz's commenst on the gay football player thread (and that one was a doozy)
You're not wrong.
The rules have changed. SOME name-calling, by SOME posters over SOME issues is allowed to stand.
That's why I did not contribute to the last FReepathon.
IF things settle down, and return to somethig like normal, I will double my contribution next time..
you mean him?
Funniest thing I've read all day and that includes lazamataz's commenst on the gay football player thread (and that one was a doozy)
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