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I just got a new lap top and all of the FR posts are in Pacific time. How do I change it to East coast time? I'm going to shower and eat cheese and will be right back.

A reknowned spammer just hit FR, he is probably from Senegal, and has been one of those "A rich uncle has to get $10 million out of senegal, if you give me $10k i can split the money with you" scammers. DO NOT give him your email address, he will sell it to dozens of email spambot networks. I hope this was self evident to the FR community, but would rather be seen as a bit pedantic than have FR be the vector for someone to lose their life savings from a African email scam.

Can someone explain logging on to this forum?? Been lurking for years and now it's time to speak up...

I need to talk to whomever is the administrative moderator today. You'd think with as many times as I've been banned I'd know how to do this!!! LOL! Thanks!

The 2009 FreeRepublic LexiconAKA "The Freepism, Freepology, Lingo, Dictionary, Terminology, Lore Handbook" A revised and condensed version of The Lexicon of FreeRepublic, culled from Lexicon of FreeRepublic - 4th Edition and Freeper Lingo Thread (the history and meening of 'Freepisms' including pictures). Thanks to the many Freepers who contributed, especially Bugbear and Risky Schemer, the originators of the first lexicon! (see also The 2008 FreeRepublic Lexicon) I have attempted to include all definitions and histories provided to me and give credit to those who provided me the information. I apologize, in advance to those I failed to credit, but please...

This is a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood Admin Moderators (Sidebar gave us some attitude so we shoved him in the closet for a while. He never recovered from the Yacht incident) For a while, we have noticed some things happening that we need your help with. The Free Republic community is strong; we are almost a family, albeit very dysfunctional at times. Like any community, we have new members joining us daily. Unfortunately, the air of suspicion and the desire to keep things “the way they are” has fostered a feeling of distrust with new members. Almost...

I just realized I have a serious addiction problem. I am addicted to Free Republic. Here are my stats You've posted a total of 706 threads and 42,891 replies. How much of an addict are you?

I can get into FReep mail but when I click on the item, it does not open.

I was wondering if there is an easier way to post photos here. Every time I want to post one of my own photos, I have to upload to Photobucket and grab the HTML code. Is there a program or Firefox add on that can assign HTML code when the file is saved?

We've received many requests from freepers requesting that other freepers not post to them. There are several problems with this. 1. It's impossible for us to enforce.2. We don't have the time to enforce these requests.3. We don't have the software to keep track of these requests.4. Thick skin helps.5. Ignore the poster, if you don't reply, they won't reply. Free Republic does not need a bozo filter, bozo filters are for wimps. Final note: Trolls, troublemakers, disruptors, forum pests, malcontents, RINOs, liberals, stalkers, et al, would continue posting to (harassing) someone after being asked to stop. Conservative FReepers would...

With the holidays fast approaching, is the "Singles Thread" coming back. It was a good thread with a lot of interesting people. What say we bring it back???

Happy BirthdayFree Republic(13) Thank you JimRob (or is it that Thompson fella?)for the memories, frustrations with friends & foe, love, and friendships forged over the years.

May I please make a humble request? Is there any way you could add a button or something on the submission screen to warn of us forbidden sources before we spend the time preparing an article for posting?

I nominate Uncle Bill

Is FR under DOS attack again? When I am replying to posts and I hit the refresh button I'm getting ALL sorts of weird stuff--'document does not exist on server', page reloads back to original with no replies, blank pages...[cue twilight zone music while waving at WH flunkies in charge of DOS attack]...

Please pardon the vanity. Is anyone else having weird issues with the forum this evening when trying to post a new thread or a reply?

I wrote a response to somone about Islam being a cancer on the world. I opened two rather nasty emails from people who got my email address quoting me word for word. I dont mind defending my beliefs, but I was wondering how they got my email address....

Ok, this Freepathon, like the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going on and on. What's up with that ? So here are a few reasons why this is so and I'm curious to what the problem is. Please chime in if any apply to you. 1) The economy stinks and so does my finances. 2) I got banned too many times. 2a) People who I want banned, did not get banned. 3) There are too many people who disagree with me on this forum. 4) There are too many annoying people on this forum. 5) I've been called "rino" too many...

New Message on Illinois Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:55:12 AM SERKIT How about starting the Center for Righteous Fearmongering (CFR). All it takes is a FAX machine, some cardboard, magic markers......some quotes directly from HB3200 and maybe a website which would have a link to directly send emails to flag@whitehouse.gov Attention: Snitch B!tch. More Announcements / Options Forum: News/ActivismArticlesActivityCommentsBrevity: « Headers » | Text

A thread with this title was posted about 10 years ago. The top choices were JohnHuang2 and kattracks (who sadly died of cancer a couple of years ago). My current favorites are governsleastgovernsbest for posting his great commentaries from newsbusters here (this is NOT an ad). I also like RobinMasters, he finds great articles to post. Also, kudos to Cindy for her relentless research. And of course, Jim Robinson who makes this all possible. This thread is dedicated to kattracks, a true friend of FR. May she rest in peace.

I've found the sources that must be excerpted but not the banned ones. A link would be appreciated. Thank you.

Been having a LOT of problems with connectivity with FreeRepublic. Runs very slow, sometimes drops off. Is FR getting slammed and getting overloaded, or (black helicopter time) is it a conspiracy to interfere with FR?

I've been getting a lot of "Service Temporarily Unavailable" pages this morning - and noticing the number of double- and even triple-posts, others are getting it too....

Can someone please tell me how to delete my account? A friend talked me into creating an account, but I have found this just really isn't for me. I've looked everywhere I can think of, but have yet to find a way to disable/delete my account. Any help would be appreciated.

How do I add a video to my blog posts so that they show up? I have seen some posts with videos I can watch but when I look at my previews I cannot tell if they work or not.

Given the American Conservative pot is boiling and bubbling, I wonder if the ranks of FreeRepublic are growing? Is there any way to track if the numbers of members on FreeRepublic have increased in number since the election and inauguration of President Obama? I truly believe that forums like this are necessary to the freedom of our country, and I want to be heartened by the news that, yes, the numbers of new members and activities of old members are time for the masses to peaceably assemble and get really, fires-of-Hell mad. This administration and the Liberals in this country...

Is it that I have just noticed the "Next Page" tag/link at the top of the messages, or is it something that is recent? It is really aggravating. I use an Apple most of the time and because of the screen dimensions, I see no messages because the Next-Page tag takes up so much space. Not a complaint, but just a question.

Can someone tell me where html help for Free Republic is located and the general help for posting? I located the html once, but I can't now. I wanted to learn a couple of functions like how to, in a long thread, view just two of the poster's past comments, or three. So I could quickly read the arguement between two or three posters without having to run thru the whole thread.

Today, I notice that the number of thread views is not displaying. The number of replies is. I like to see the number of views because it indicates what subjects are of most interest to FReepers at any time. For example, Palin posts get many views and gets them quick. My posts about Honduras, not so much. Did the recent outages cause the elimination of the "views" data?

I post many items here, from business to politics and evrything in between, and sometimes entertainment as a nice distraction from all of the corrupt politicians. Recently I tried to post an article about a supermodel who is pregnant. I thought it was a mistake after it was pulled the first time, but it was pulled a second. What is so objectionable to this news item? And is there a place we can look for a set of rules, as I have seen much worse than this posted int he past.

It's time for a new HTML reference so you can make your posts look cool. HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language. It's a set of simple commands used to format the text of your posts, add images, or links, or change the appearance. URL is Uniform Resource Locator. It's the name of the page or the picture that you see, the www.http:// stuff. You'll need to use the URL to make links and post pictures. Quotation Marks Quotes have to be used around the URLs for web pages and images on Free Republic. Some systems do not require this. Ours...

I cannot get rid of the "New Posts to You" indicator at the top of my login. What must I do? I have read every post to mee since I started on here. Help

I can't seem to post threads or even replies.I wonder, am I logged in?

Is Free Republic frozen for some reason? Stuff from 10:30 am today is the last stuff showing up. A test.

Can't read posts....or nothing.

I posted "Under Pressure, Obama Calls on Iran to End Violence, 'Unjust' Actions" from foxnews: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/20/republicans-pressure-obama-support-iranian-protesters/ about 30 min to an hour ago it close to 50 replies and around 600 views and it is gone.

Have a new Blackberry Bold bought specifically to keep up with email and favorite website FR. Anyone know how to view, say, the Latest Articles page without the sidebar knocking out the body of the page. As it loads you see the titles of the threads and body, but as it continues to load the sidebar knocks that off the page. Sorry, I'm new at this. Do I need to change Java script? Change the "Browsing Experience"? I don't really know what questions to ask. Thanks in advance for any advice. My freeping addiction needs to be fed if possible!

How to tell if you've been FReeping too longIf some, many or all of the following apply to you, you probably have been FReeping too long. You remember when you had to know basic HTML in order to form a decent post.  You remember when the entire thread had to be 86’d in order to remove a single post.  You remember when if someone forgot to close their italics, bold tags, the entire thread after that point was in bold or italics.  You remember when if a disruptor made a mess of things during the wee hours of the night,...

There are some really annoying liberal trolls on Free Republic who have survived for months and years without being banned. Why is Free Republic allowing them to stay? We have enough liberalism and left wing lunacy on 90% of the media and we do not need this crap on this forum. It is not difficult to spot these trolls. A quick review of their posting history will prove without any shadow of doubt that they are liberal trolls. Some of them try to mask it but they cannot fool the vast majority of us. There are plenty of left wing...

So we know who John Galt is...but what about his cousin, Hugh Series?

I know Freepers will solve this one quick, I now have 2 Vista computers thank you for the pity, and on both FR (and I guess other sites but I mainly care about FR) does not refresh every time I reopen Internet Explorer, I always have to press the refresh symbol. I never had this problem on my XP running computers. I can't find how to change the refresh rate. Thanks in advance computer wizarda.

Posting embedded video on forums threads is common among internet discussion sites. I don't see why we can't have that on FR. It won't put any additional burden on the FR servers and will save posters and readers the inconvenience of leaving FR to visit an external site (Youtube, etc). Policy makers please consider this. Thanks.

I've gone to everything under accounts and I can't find it. Thanks, FA

"Sorry, an error occurred. The error has been logged."

I haven't been able to reach it for over a day now, what's up?

I just discovered FreeRepublic's Twitter page @FreeRepublic and I want to say kudos to whoever put it together. If you aren't following, click on the link above to join.

Can we not post Associated Press articles?

So why am I not allowed to post like I use to without it being screened first? I have tried to post 2 other threads and they don't show up at ALL. Can someone steer me where I am wrong here in getting my posts posted?? What am I doing wrong???? Or is it that you can not post here without it being screened firs? I hope the latter is wrong.

Does anyone know how long FR has been linked on Drudge? Thanks, Silly

Re: FR Down in Virginia --- In freerepublic2@yahoogroups.com, "freeper_p8riot" wrote: > > Went down just a few minutes ago > It is down here as well...El Paso area. Seems to be missing from my DNS server? I can get on FR if I use the TOR network. peculiar....it's like someone erased FR from the domain name server list...all I get is Address Not Found Firefox can't find the server at www.freerepublic.com.