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FR | 4-1-05 | Bob J

[Bob J]

You underestimate the impact of quiet resolve and persistance. You may be responding to one person, but thoudands read your post.

Post as if you are talking to the thousands that will read you, not one numbskull.

[Petronski]

No surrender. No retreat. Remember the Alamo!

And, remember the 'girl" too.

[Bob J]

O bow to the one before.

[Constitution Day]

Hmmm.

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOLOL! Thank you for that "plug"!

[Nam Vet]

Nice thread Bob. We sure have seen some antics here, haven't we?

Nam Vet

[Always Right]

I don't see how anyone could be a conservative and not value life. To me that is part of the definition of a conservative.

' In all fairness, Terri has been in a vegitated state for 15 years. Under those extreme cases there may be some differences of opinion. There is no way of knowing what Terri could or could not feel or know. There is rational arguements on both sides.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sometimes shaming the persistently evil is all that can be done this side of glory.

[Hank Rearden]

After all, why should the crusty buggers be treated any differently than someone who signed up last week?

Are they more intelligent, are their arguments more cohesive…persuasive? Do they have any more or less to contribute to this community we call the Free Republic?

Yes, yes and hell yes.

Crustoids rule, noobs drool.

IMHO, of course.

[dts32041]

So put your money where your mouth is like us crusty old timers.

Till you do that, then you are just blowing it out your bilge pumps.

[Billthedrill]

After all, why should the crusty buggers be treated any differently than someone who signed up last week? Are they more intelligent, are their arguments more cohesive…persuasive?

Why, yes, of course. ;-)

There is a tendency when hearing things with which you do not agree, to ascribe those who say them to some sort of group with a disagreeable label - "pitchforkers" (remember that one?) or lately, "pro-death." This is worthy neither of the labeler or his or her subject, and is one mark of a mind more possessed with passion than reason.

Sometimes you just get tired, tired of trying not to return heat for heat, tired of refraining from smearing the one who's just smeared you because he or she is too lazy or unjust to do otherwise. That is an indication that it's time for a vacation. They'll always be out there, and they'll never change, and if you can't put up with them on an electronic forum then real life is going to present a real problem.

To those for whom I've had a hotter reply than I'd intended - RaceBannon, Texas Cowboy, you guys, for example - my apologies, and thank you for being better men than I and avoiding returning kind for kind. That is what old-timers have to offer, I think - some of us have had second and third chances to be more what we intend to be instead of what fatigue and anger make us at the moment. Perspective.

[Bob J]

Over and over. It's for us oldies to earn our keep.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP for a great post.

[Bob J]

I would ask that on this thread we try to talk about the things that bind us. Divisions will always divide and never end up anything good.

[Lurker]

"After all, why should the crusty buggers be treated any differently than someone who signed up last week? Are they more intelligent, are their arguments more cohesive…persuasive? Do they have any more or less to contribute to this community we call the Free Republic?"

To answer all four of your questions:

Yes, yes, yes, and more.

L

[ASA Vet]

Post as if you are talking to the thousands that will read you, not one numbskull.

What? I thought I was FR's token numbskull. You mean there are more of us?

[Bob J]

To me, Hillary is "persistently evil". FReepers who disagree with me only prove I haven't perfected my argument.

[alcuin]

Favoritism sucks.

It's un-Argentinian.

And another thing . . .

GET RID OF THE IDIOTIC SIGN-UP DATE POP-UP!!!

Longevity-laden lips sink rebuttals from newbie "team players."

The post . . .

NOT the POSTER.

Just let it rock.

[Bob J]

Oaky. I decide I wanted to put my money, mouth and energy into the media issue and created RIGHTALK.com. Good enough start?

[Bob J]

Fair enough, I will consider what you have posted.