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I recently received a reply to a post that stated: "This should be beneath a "freeper". Sad." So I asked.. what is it that makes a FReeper? My reply (and I will admit was tasteless) was also questioning. It stirred controversy and was removed? Why Moderators? Can you not tell me? Did it not meet with your "FReeper" mentality? According to all posted guidelines it should be listed but no, you chose to delete it. Yes.. I'm the first one IBTZ, I'm sure you'll nick me for speaking up..

SHE DIDN'T TALK like the donkey in "Shrek," nor did she arrive bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. But the family of Sidekick, the celebrity miniature donkey who spent more than six months on the lam, was glad to have her back nonetheless. "She's a great Christmas present," said Glenna Tompkins, a MediCorp Health System analyst who lives in Louisa County. In May, Tompkins transferred the 20-month-old jenny, or female donkey, from Orange to her parents' 10-acre farm near the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield. Within hours, Sidekick had escaped through a hole where a tree had fallen on the...

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

why do people keep banning me everytime I put up interesting articles? I work for a website I think some of you are familiar with called phantirath weekly world news and each time we put somthing up on FR no matter how conservative it is it keeps getting banned. Whats the matter with it?! Damn man what are you marxist socialists communists? I just got a call this mroning from a Juwish friend of mine who said that you banned an important article about Zionism and Noam Federman and about how we were to support israel. I thought you guys...