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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day 07-25-02
Billie

Posted on 07/25/2002 5:06:58 AM PDT by Billie








A Few of FR's Finest.....
......Every Day

FR is a Treasure Trove of talented, compassionate, patriotic, wonderful people who gather every day to discuss the latest news and issues;  salute
and support our military and our leaders;  tell a few jokes;  learn a new
word;  write poetry;  pray for those in need;  and congratulate those who
are deserving. Thank you, Jim Robinson, for giving us the vehicle in which
we can express ourselves.

Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.  I
can remember lurking when there were only a few regulars who posted, and now there are over 60,000 who have registered for posting privileges. The forum is read daily by tens of thousands
of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world.





A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!

And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.



TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete
MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1






TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet

MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga

BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc






TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette

MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid

BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf





TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP

MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian

BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma






TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68

MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797
BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack






TOP:  g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett

MIDDLE:  fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick,Leroy S Mort, Mark17

BOTTOM:  Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau






TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam,

dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony

BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang






TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx

MIDDLE:  The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law

BOTTOM:  deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.





TOP: Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog

MIDDLE:  Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son

BOTTOM:  JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.





                     








The
Accidental
Tourist

He's Everywhere!   He's Everywhere!



Lowbridge

FReeper since 02-12-99

It's all Lowbridge's fault!  All of a sudden, after 911, when that photo of him standing at the top of the Trade Center first appeared, we were seeing the Tourist Guy everywhere!  Lowbridge, who is one of FR's most creative photo manipulators, began to insert Tourist Guy's photo in the most outlandish places.  Soon he created a whole web site with this accidental tourist appearing in places one could only dream about!
One look at Lowbridge' Profile Page and I knew there was no way I could summarize in just two or three paragraphs his commitment to FReeRepublic, FReeRepublic-related activities and organizations, and FREEPERS in general!  This New Yorker is almost like the Tourist Guy;  he's everywhere, he's everywhere!  I urge all of you to take a look at his profile page, check out some of his links, and also see some of the ways he's taken FReeper's heads and morphed them into movie posters and promos. Two of my personal favorites are pictured here.   Click on the thumbnails to see them full-size.
A few things about our FReeper of the Day that I'd like to point out:

Lowbridge is a big supporter and promoter of AnnaZ and Mercuria's FR radio program  UNSPUN the website He organized and hosted the FReeper Bus Trip to Albany.  He has created a parody of Democratic Underground.  He is a chapter leader of the FRee Republic Second Amendment Task Force.  Many of you met Lowbridge in Washington D.C. for the FReeper Inaugural Ball;   he attended The anti-United Nations Rally last July, and in August, he got to spend some quality time with some of his favorite people in California. I would be remiss if I didn't include a link to that thread, where such good memories were made:   California Memories

Thank you, Lowbridge!
You ARE one of FR's Finest!












THIS WEEK'S THREADS

07-15-02 Phil V.
07-16-02 MtnGrl
07-17-02 ru4Liberty


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To: fisherman

Grannie9's lunch yesterday.
Isn't that some pretty haddock?


181 posted on 07/25/2002 12:36:32 PM PDT by lodwick
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To: whoever
President Reagan, God Bless his wonderful heart. Always get a bit nostalgic when I read something he said.

I can't compete in the funny department - every once in a while a silly thought comes to mind, that's all.
182 posted on 07/25/2002 12:38:38 PM PDT by Billie
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To: lodwick; fisherman
You put that right in front of my eyes and not offer me some??? How cruel. That is inhumane, or infigment, whatever.

That is so tempting I may just steal it before fisherman gets here.

183 posted on 07/25/2002 12:45:49 PM PDT by whoever
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To: whoever
Whoa! That is a beautiful story, whoever! A tearful Thank you!
184 posted on 07/25/2002 12:48:35 PM PDT by ohioWfan
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To: whoever
Reminds me of the time a woman from Big Ugly Creek, West Virginia was attacked.

Headline read "Big Ugly Woman Assaulted".

185 posted on 07/25/2002 1:00:33 PM PDT by ladtx
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To: Billie; JulieRNR21; daisyscarlett; whoever; ru4liberty; MeeknMing; kitkat; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; ...
An airline pilot challenges Arab Muslims in America
By John Maniscalco © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

"You worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.
But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it anymore.
People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now.
I don't fully understand their grievances and hate but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.

On Sept. 11, 19 ARAB MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others.
They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants and children's mothers.

So I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists.
But I need your help.
As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.

How do I differentiate between the true Arab-Muslim-Americans and the Arab Muslims in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks and living in our communities under the protection of our Constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter those very same good neighbors and children?
The events of Sept. 11 changed the answer. It is not my responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with all of its religions, with all of its different citizens, with all of its faults.
It is time for every Arab Muslim in this country to determine it for me.

I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a right to know whether or not you love America.
Do you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly display it in front of your house or on your car? Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation, that He will protect and prosper it?

Or do you pray that Allah will destroy it in one of your "jihads"? Are you thankful for the freedom that only this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by paying the ultimate sacrifice?
Do you love America?
If this is your commitment, then I need you to start letting me know about it.

Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your faith and what hard actions you are taking as a community and as a religion to protect the United States of America.
Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the innocent because I worry about who you regard as innocent. And no more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks because I worry about what is unprovoked to you.
I am not interested in any more sympathy; I am only interested in action.
What will you do for America – our great country – at this time of crisis, at this time of war?

I want to see Arab Muslims waving the AMERICAN flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting "Allah Bless America." I want to see young Arab Muslim men enlisting in the military.
I want to see a commitment of money, time and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole.

The FBI has a list of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding the WTC attack. Many of these people live and socialize in Muslim communities.
You know them.
You know where they are. Hand them over to us, now!

But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action. Instead I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter.
You have disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed security guards at your facilities.
You have threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from reprisals.

The very few Arab Muslim representatives that have appeared in the media were defensive and equivocating. They seemed more concerned with making sure that the United States prove who was responsible before taking action.
They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed toward them in the United States and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing "leaders" like Gadhafi, Hussein, Farrakhan and Arafat.
If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people, then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up.
What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good and pure and true when your "leaders" are teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism and intolerance?

It matters little how good Islam should be if large numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Muhammad incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion.
A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence, death and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world.
A form whose members defended Johnny Cochran and O. J. Simpson after the latter butchered his wife and murdered an innocent friend.
A form whose members (some as young as 5 years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting weapons into the air.
A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against the great United States of America, the country of their birth.
A form whose rules are so twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam.

Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because our women proudly show their faces in public rather than cover up like a shameful whore?
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we drink wine with dinner or celebrate Christmas?
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we have befriended Israel, the only civilized democratic nation in the entire Middle East?
And if you and your fellow Muslims hate us, then why in the world are you even here?

Are you here to take our money? Are you here to undermine our peace and stability? Are you here to destroy us?
If so, I want you to leave.
I want you to go back to your desert sandpit where women are treated like rats and dogs.
I want you to take your religion, your friends, and your family back to your Islamic extremists, and STAY THERE!

We will never give in to your influence, your retarded mentality, your twisted, violent, intolerant religion.
We will never allow the attacks of Sept. 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us: Our rights under the greatest Constitution in the world.

I want to know where every Arab Muslim in this country stands, and I think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to demand it.
A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very Constitution that is protecting you and your family.
I am pleading with you to let me know. I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American.
But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance.
It is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand.

Until then ... you worry me!"
[bold is mine]



Sweet Lord, that is powerful!!!!!

Thank you, Marsha!

The time to act is NOW to shut off our borders, close down the INS and deport illegal aliens by the thousands from our country.
The time is NOW to formulate and implement a brand new immigration policy based on the love of this country and that for which it stands.
The time is NOW to stand up and ask every Muslim in this country, "DO YOU LOVE AMERICA?"
If the answer is anything other than an unequivocal "YES!", then get them to hell out of MY country......NOW!!

186 posted on 07/25/2002 1:08:46 PM PDT by COB1
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To: whoever
Lovely haddock from somewhere along the NJ coast. I told Gran that it was not a pretty sight, my leaning over and biting at my monitor. ;-)
187 posted on 07/25/2002 1:13:16 PM PDT by lodwick
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To: ladtx
LOL. Hi, ladtx.
188 posted on 07/25/2002 1:13:41 PM PDT by Billie
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To: ladtx
Good one, I will add that if it is ok.
189 posted on 07/25/2002 1:13:53 PM PDT by whoever
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To: lodwick
Ooops - make that NH coast.

Good post Cobby - we are right there with you on this one - thanks.

I do not know what wrong with the pencil neck paper pushers in DC. Terminal PCdom? Profile, profile, and profile some more I say.
190 posted on 07/25/2002 1:17:05 PM PDT by lodwick
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To: lowbridge
Thanks for TG does Tara and Atlanta with Scarlett....If you have not already posted some TG dollars-well that would be my next request............
191 posted on 07/25/2002 1:18:48 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: COB1
Thought provoking, Cobby. Thanks!
192 posted on 07/25/2002 1:20:07 PM PDT by whoever
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To: COB1
WOW! Powerful is exactly the word I had in mind, because there doesn't seem to be one more appropriate. Good afternoon and thank you, Coby, for posting this today.
193 posted on 07/25/2002 1:20:56 PM PDT by Billie
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To: lowbridge; carlo3b; Billie
A well deserved tribute!!

You are one of FR's finest, Marc and a good friend. {{{{{{HUG}}}}}

194 posted on 07/25/2002 1:22:21 PM PDT by jellybean
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To: JulieRNR21
It is a beautiful sunny day here on the left coast also....


195 posted on 07/25/2002 1:24:59 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: jellybean
Hi, jellybean - so glad you enjoyed the tribute to lowbridge. :)
196 posted on 07/25/2002 1:31:13 PM PDT by Billie
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To: whoever
Fine with me, don't know about the Big Ugly woman tho'.
197 posted on 07/25/2002 1:32:14 PM PDT by ladtx
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To: Billie
Good afternoon Billie. Didn't check in yesterday, they were working me too hard here. Terrible thing to do to a guy on his birthday. I did have time to enjoy the huge birthday cookie my wife sent me tho'.
198 posted on 07/25/2002 1:36:17 PM PDT by ladtx
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To: g'nad; Hunter
Be careful out there now.


199 posted on 07/25/2002 1:37:16 PM PDT by lodwick
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To: Mama_Bear
"Daisy, I will try to be around as much as I can today and tomorrow."

Oh goody,,,,in that case, let's have some tea....


200 posted on 07/25/2002 1:37:42 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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