Ignorance Making You Ill? Cure It!

self | 01-04-02 | backhoe

[backhoe]

Does ignorance- the kind you run into in conversations with people, on editorial pages, and in letters to editors- make you queasy?

Remeber the old saying, "stupidity is forever, but ignorance can be cured with learning," and do your part to spread knowledge across the Web and the world.

First, never forget that we have a valuble resource right here on this site:

Research & Analysis via FreeRepublic...

Next, when you see an article here, pass it on to others-- Look here:

Communicate! Let the Sons of....

--within these links for mass communication are a pile of email addies-- what you do, in Outlook Express is create a new email "group" and in that group enter as many of the email addies as you wish.... I have one for "opinionators," one for "media" and so on. When you see a post on FR you want to send to a group, minimise IE and open Outlook express, click "new mail" go to the group you want to send it to and put it in the "bcc" so they aren't aware it is a mass email. Go back to IE and if you have clicked on the article, its web address will appear in the "address" window.... just use control-C and -V to copy & paste that to your email, with a title and comments, and send it... they will have a clickable link that way. How much good this does I do not know, but at least for a while people have a chance of seeing and reading things they may be unaware of.... I do suspect that some commentators like Tony Snow on Fox have gotten items this way.

[backhoe]

I'm with you there- the web, and even slow, slow talk radio, gets a lot closer to the truth. I will say that my 2 local papers have excellent, conservative editorial pages- but- and it's a big "but"- they do use the wire services for national news, and it is pretty bad. Agitprop for the dumbell masses.

[Inge_CAV]

"Agitprop for the dumbell masses."

This is one dumbell that is happy to have found FreeRepublic. : )

[backhoe]

You know, I bumped around different boards prior to landing at FR.... Newsmax had ( then ) a slew a racist idiots I didn't care for, EaglesUp! was fine, but vanished, thefiringline is mainly RKBA ( but within those limitations is a fine board I'd recommend to anyone ) and several others were nice, but too daggone small- I want my voice, when raised, to reach as many as possible.

Besides which, FR covers everything of interest to me- if it's important, it will eventually get covered here- and that's very helpful; otherwise I have to go to several different sites just to cover all the news I want to follow.

Also, as one FReeper put it, "Free Republic's what I always wanted- a newspaper I can talk back to!"

[Inge_CAV]

"Also, as one FReeper put it, "Free Republic's what I always wanted- a newspaper I can talk back to!"

They are right too!

[backhoe]

I used to drive my wife a little batty by directing ( cuss-word laced ) commentary to the TV, radio, or newspaper... Free Republic is much quieter and more satisfying, too.

[2Trievers]

" used to drive my wife a little batty by directing ( cuss-word laced ) commentary to the TV, radio, or newspaper... Free Republic is much quieter and more satisfying, too."

Fewer commercials too, JR! &;-)

[UCANSEE2]

"Never argue with an idiot. Nobody will be able to tell the difference by the time you're finished."

[Justanumba]

Just so you know, EAGLESUP is back, Robby just forgot to pay for the domain name.

[backhoe]

Just so you know, EAGLESUP is back

Wonderful! I highly recommend EaglesUp! to all!

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[backhoe]

Thanks for the bump!

[rdb3]

Nuclear bump!

[backhoe]

Where *is* that dam' graphic?

[rdb3]

Hey, I thought about it, but was too lazy to post one. ;-)

[JulieRNR21]

Thanks for explaining in detail how to spread the word.....BTW I've been working at doing just that for quite awhile via emails to cyberfriends & the media.

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking. That method works with my setup, and it's so much easier than trying to argue a point- just link the story and tell others "go look for yourself!"

[dcwusmc]

THanks. A useful resource!

[backhoe]

Thank you for looking- you really can reach and annoy a lot of people with these links. The only drawback is emailing your "critters" in government; nearly all send back "Your opinion is so important to me...." semi-spam.

But even if the head critter never reads your email, they cannot claim they did not get an opinion from you... the answerback proves that they did.

[IM2Phat4U]

Thanks backhoe!

[TigersEye]

re #33. Do you have something in a shoulder held model? Sighting by eye is half the fun of shooting. 8 )