Don't know, don't care. I get all I need right here. If that ever stops I will not complain about it, I will just stop coming here. I doubt that will ever happen. Too many good posts to let the complainers get the best of me.
My memory is a little fuzzy about who came first, FR or LC. I learned of FR first, I think, but now i am not even sure about that. :-)
FreeRepublic was around long before Lucy.com. In fact, Lucy was a poster here under the screen name Trixie. When she started her site, some of her flying monkeys started a major flame war here and slandered Jim Robinson trying to lure posters to lucy's site. It was an ugly time but as can be easily understood, FreeRepublic has prevailed.