Posted on 08/16/2007 7:56:17 PM PDT by crusher
I was listening to the news out of the corner of my ear when I heard FreeRepublic specifically mentioned as a "hate site" about fifteen minutes ago.
Ostensibly the long report was about the Klan using the web to recruit new wackos. Then the focus turned to Casa Maryland, and their director who claimed that calls for his murder had circulated on the internet by anti-immigrant bigots. It was then that the anchor identified FR by name as a hate site.
I used to reply, sometimes at length. Now I find it to just be a waste of time. No shortage of rugged, individualistic men who believe their lives were derailed by a divorce, or that their sorry lot in life is because they fell victim to affirmative action 30 years ago.
Conservatives can fall into the victim mentality as well as liberals (who to be fair, make it a life mission).
When are you going to quit whining?
I've loved all your posts, r9...but this has to be the best line yet!
I am NOT going to apologize for a non-mistake. It was not a serious mistake, it was a post, writing, the internet. I did NOT assault her person, nor did I intend to assault her. Stop looking for insults, innuendos and problems where there were none.
Who are you and why are you butting into my “conversations?”
IYO, "FR has a fair bit of influence on the national political scene" so now we should be all worried about "outsiders looking in", "how we act at home", "throwing red meat to the wolves".....
Let the FReepin' outsiders join up and make this their home too and if all they can bring themselves to do is look in, screw 'em, just keep looking in.
Just who or what are these FReepin' "wolves" you're talking about and why should Freepers cower away from the "red meat" and starve while they blatantly lie and gorge themselves at the kill?
Oh no! Your reputation may be dragged through the mud by the lies the, currently influential, wolves will present about your pack in an attempt to drag the reputation of the pack through the mud.
Sounds like the majority of republicans in the federal government to me and look what that type of behavior has earned them in the long run.
BTTT
why are you butting into my “conversations?”
***Is he reading your FReepmail? A public post is not a private conversation. If you don’t want others to “butt into” YOUR conversations, that’s what freepmail is for. Otherwise, they ain’t YOUR conversations, they’re OURS. A public post is an open invitation to anyone to comment.
I’m a bit torn per your perspective.
I agree that wisdom and wise, brief, dense (weighty) few words can be much more effective.
I doubt we have a host of such writers close to that perfection hereon . . . and I doubt we’re training them in droves.
It is kind of a . . . big somewhat contentious family here. And we are prone to letting lots hang out all over the place.
But durn it, we are OUR family and it is our turf even if we live in an exposed glass house. I’m not in favor of kowtowing to their standards or sensibilities. Ours are quite fine enough.
They can get used to our standards and sensibilities and choose to see things in our context or lie like the blazes about us. Of course, they will choose the latter. No surprise there.
But this business of couching things so that the pharisees will be happy is an exercised doomed in futility and silly to begin with.
The pharisees will NEVER be happy with us. They will NEVER see things properly—much less properly in context etc.
They do NOT CARE about reality, facts, history, truth, righteousness, sanity, The Republic or mom or apple pie.
They are deluded from hell and hell bent toward globalism and thinking they are headed for Nirvana. The Mother of all Surprises awaits them at their destination.
But I do NOT, prayerfully as long as JimRob has breath and ability—I do NOT have to kowtow my patriotic fierceness in the face of their tongue wagging duplicities, hypocricies, treasons, insanities, hideocies . . . GRRRR.
We have gotten where we are largely because TOO FEW PATRIOTIC AMERICANS CARED TOO LITTLE TO BOTHER AT ALL, MUCH LESS TO FIERCELY STAND UP FOR THE CONSTITUTION, THE REPUBLIC, GOD, COUNTRY, THE FAMILY AND RIGHT.
If anything, I’d rather have the volume higher than wimpier.
Yeah, wisdom is wise. No joke there. True.
But I’d rather have 10 patriots fiercely giving it their best shot, however imperfectly, than 100 giving it a PC twist designed to impress their college English prof and the PC censors.
The PC censors will ALWAYS find something to pick and scream about. Trying to please the pharisees is an exercise in stupidity as well as futility. Christ Himself was harshest with them. He NEVER tried to please THEM. He NEVER tried to do things THEIR WAY according to their sensibilities.
HE ALWAYS CUT CATTYWUMPUS ACROSS THEIR SENSIBILITIES. May we continue to do the same thing with all those clucking hypocrites who are so determined to be destructive to our Republic, our Constitution and our way of life.
I’m really not against wise potent words. I love wisdom and wise words in behalf of our freedoms, FR, The Republic, The Constitution etc.
But 100 pounds of passion can make up for a good bit of lack in the wisdom department.
Most folks hereon are not writers by profession. We just stumble along expressing ourselves more or less as we would in private letters; over the back fence etc. . . . with some eye to Jim’s wise standards.
Much of the time, our passion is what carries the punch in what we have to say. It is not our oratory.
You think the other side worries about their spit and polish?
They spew all kinds of utter filth, lies, broadside distortions etc. 24/7 and care not a twit’s worth, a gnat’s fart’s worth about who cares what about it.
I have 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000% need to cater to their duplicitous hypocritical sensibilities.
Will middle of the roaders we might persuade be sometimes repulsed by some passionate FREEPERS’S hasty wording? Probably.
But more would be left on their couches sucking rocks and liberal filthy propaganda 24/7 BY OUR WIMPY, PASSIVE, SUPER KOSHER PC wording.
I still vote for passion over PC any and every day 24/7.
Wellll, visibly, I meant.
Leastwise—hopefully—NOT with our webcams turned on.
Actually, here, given roomers, I wear clothes NOW.
LOL.
Perhaps a shred of truth in that.
But it would be energized conservatives more than several billion dollars short and more than a decade or 3 too late.
Not REMOTELY worth the risk.
The is horridly bad news—as in maximum evil news. She’ll rush us into globalism at the speed of light. The RINOs would at least be slower.
And, that logic . . . is a bit like the logic that “this country needs another 911 only worse”
in order to wake up and save itself.
Some truth in that . . . however . . . NOT to be sought nor risked if there’s any means to prevent it.
It is good they took it down, but I bet it was more in the spirit of getting rid of the evidence than it was of righting a wrong.
Nice job!
The MSM is blind to the fact that 99.9% of the so called hate posts here are only reflections of dissatisfaction of the handling of the issues by the politicians. They only see through agenda colored glasses.
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Good points.
But I don’t think they see at all. They are the blind leading the blind. They only parot whatever the puppet masters give them as script for the day.
Bill O’Reilly ah. Stopped listening to that dude a few years back, once I realized he was a horse’s *ss. Whoops! Guess I am full of hate.
I think JimRob is right.
This is war.
I think the puppet masters are trying to dinminish, destroy our effectiveness because they feel our effectivness where it hurts their agenda.
I have long hypothesized . . . they likely have some very conservative sounding stooges all set up . . . such that when the time comes, these very conservative stars will help turn whatever conservatives will blindly follow them—to the globalist pied piper road to hell and gloablism.
I hope BOR is not such a person. He’s not per se conservative but a lot of liberals see him that way.
He tries to be more objective more of the time than the liberal idiots do.
Do you ever sleep?
I wish I could say I helped, but my unfinished message is sitting in my Drafts folder. I’m still going to finish it and send it, just for GP.
Great Scripture. So true.
EVIL ALWAYS HATES GOOD. CAN’T STAND GOOD.
GOOD IS AN AFFRONT TO EVIL’S VERY EXISTENCE.
We are challenged to overcome evil with Good.
But also to avoid being wimps . . . it is also said in Scripture that the Righteous take territory by force. It’s not clear what that means . . .
AND THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL BUT ARE INSTEAD PRAYER AND FASTING AND GOOD DEEDS . . .
but at least it means we are not to be wimps.
I have to say I did like listening to O’Reilly (tape delayed here in Kansas City, but it beats “Buy My Book” Hannity), but after tuning in to his way-off-the-base coverage of Free Republic, I’m done with him.
Guess it’s sports radio for this ex-Culture Warrior.
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