Checking in. Don’t know what I’ll talk about yet, but I’ll click in from time to time to see what develops on the thread...
Can we go back and buy vast amounts of silver?
Joined 2000 during the election fiasco. I guess the thing I remember most is 9/11 here, that day would have been pretty lonely without FR.
PS: The class of ‘98 produced some great FReepers, although they scare me. ;)
Lurker Since Oct 1, 2004 checking in!
My history is that I found a link to this site while reading The Drudge Report about a White House intern scandal. Thanks Matt.
Whatever he wants to do is fine.
I miss Non-Sequitor.
Some of my favorite times on FR were the live stream commenting while watching “24”... I can’t count the number of times I laughed so hard, I had to clean bourbon from my laptop screen! :-)
I also remember the Alamo-Girls LONG list of Clinton’s disgusting legacy. Also, when Doug from Upland was a caller on the Rush Limbaugh show! :-)
As mentioned earlier... I FIRST learned about 9/11 here on FR... and, for the first several hours, it was the ONLY PLACE on the web that was working at all... The FR crowd understood, quickly... the significance of the event.
I’ve ALWAYS found FR to be the best place to find breaking news. Anything interesting anywhere, can be found here. And, sometimes... with interesting commentary to go with it..... sometimes! ;-)
Twenty years from now, I’ll be saying the “greatest thing” was Homer Simpson’s DAILY postings from WWII era newspapers.... it’s been fascinating reading for several years now.
Now... if I can just keep from getting zotted before the Official Friday Silliness thread!
LIVE LONG and PROSPER, FR!
My brother turned me on to FP during the Whitewater/Campaign Finance probe that led to Monica. The rest is history.
The old threads than ran into the hundreds, all on one page, and if ya was on dialup, like I was back then it would take several minutes to refresh for new comments, aspecialy if there was any pics.
Instead of increasing taxes (advertising),
reduce costs.
I highly recommend some sort of cloud server over a piece of physical equipment. Let someone else admin the hardware, and pay per use is really cheap compared to hardware & rackspace.
ScottinSacto
Since Jun 9, 1999
The FR protests in LA during the 2000 election fiasco were fun. In front of the federal building. My sign said W1. I had a baby in a stroller. I still have a baby in a stroller but that particular baby is 15 now.
FR has been my little sanity living in Liberalville as I do. Thank you, JR. I enjoy it and I use it and I need it, so I donate.
When I came here, Clinton was President. We all agreed then about presidential politics. We thought bush was a conservative. We could vote against the Goracle and For someone too, back then.
And we had to be sitting at a desk to freep back then. Now we can freep in the dentist chair, the woods, even in the air. Long live FR!
Lots of good memories. Miss the Dose and it's predecessors. Dad always referred to it as “the backyard fence..America has a big backyard” Good downtime to just chat about life and living. It built good relationships that are still fondly remembered.
Was on the Buckhead threat, the spaceship explosion and remember the night a local exposed JJ's love child to the world...You heard it first without spin on FR.
Then there's the research threads. Most are moved to chat or another hidden site so that FR can securely research and brainstorm their topic out of reach of prying eyes. It may be the most valuable feature on FR. Freedom on speech and thought at it's best.
Humor...and more humor...If we didn't laugh we'd all be crying. Thank God for the quick wits of freepers. My dogs always looked at me funny as the tears flowed while laughing out loud literally
It seems the purges have done little to “increase the peace”. While epic individual flame wars like One Who Knows vs The Republican will never be outdone, the overall civility on FR seems to be getting a bit worse.
Love to see more article posting and investigations into democrats than the constant bashing and rehashing and multiple reposting of old articles of why every republican who is not 100% perfect is a rino scum. Many are but sometimes it feels like a circular firing squad in here.
When you start seeing people calling DeMint a rino, see homosexual pro-hillary websites promoted, see people trash Santorum for speaking on moral values while they support a globull warming serial adulterer with 3 wives who thinks Romney is too tough on illegals, and see people actually talk about how they are voting Obama...it makes you realize how much things have changed.
That being said, Free Republic is still the #1 site for news and commentary. Right or wrong, Jim seems to be the only one out there with the balls to stand up to the GOP-e in any meaningful way. Given the choices we have in this election, some are going to go third party, some are going to hold their noses (again) and vote for the GOP nominee to stop Obama. Hopefully we can get thru this remembering we are on the same team.
Been a member since the 2008 prez campaign. Thought about donating to FR a couple of times. Still don’t understand why I am not authorized to post to activism. At least FR is free and loads quickly on a smart phone. Ads will probably slow FR down - then I’ll just go with twitter until ads take over there.
Been your FRiend since August 17, 1998.. The day Clintoon went before the grand jury to admit his improper relations with Monica, and the day Sammy Sosa hit #47 to tie Mark McGuire in their infamous home run battle.. It seems there was a lot more investigative reporting by members in the earlier days and not as much pettiness. It still amazes me how many experts in so many different fields are members here. I still remember the morning that the space shuttle Columbia broke up on her return to earth and the news breaking on FR with eyewitnesses to it before the MSM even began to report it. I’ve always enjoyed the Canteen and still miss Tonkin. Can count on Laz always ready to Hit It. Have had my eyes seared by unannounced photos of Helen Thomas. Have always known FR to be hugh and mostly series and helped make it so. Not many websites have been around for 14 years, especially forums, and the history making continues. Thanks for helping us remember where we have been, may we learn from our past and have a better future.
“Never Forget”!!
whitewater
mena
paula jones
monica
Downside Legacy
Clinton’s a Liar (CAL)
Clarity
Yellow Rose of Texas and the running thread
Don Morgan and the “cadre”
Ash Alerts
Night of the Long Knives
Eschoir
Deep in the Hurtgen Forest
Trixie
RAH
“I was there, where were you” MrConfettiMan (the true sincere activist)
SneakyPete
A+Bert
Jack Thompson
Arator and his polls on Brigadeer support
tpaine
OWK (versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1)
Askel5
Towanda
StormOrphan and the cow thread
Breaking Drudge early on the Jesse Jackson love-child and pissing Matt off.
the search for Huck on 9/11
Watching the stealth bombers take off in the pre-dawn later that year and throwing my fist in the air.