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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...

After listening to Assad’s nonsense, CBS’s chief correspondent in Iraq, Lara Logan, reports on “Iraq’s most secret and elite warriors … Iraq’s version of America’s top counterterrorism unit, Delta Force,” she says. Hardly. Granted, there is no question in terms of skill level, Iraqi special operations forces are well above their regular Iraqi army counterparts. But to suggest they are the equivalent of Delta Force commandos – the U.S. Army’s equivalent of Navy SEALs from the DevGru community – is simply not so.

EVER since “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore has been the darling of environmentalists, but that movie hardly endeared him to the animal rights folks. According to them, the most inconvenient truth of all is that raising animals for meat contributes more to global warming than all the sport utility vehicles combined. The biggest animal rights groups do not always overlap in their missions, but now they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving. They and smaller groups have started advertising campaigns that try to equate vegetarianism with curbing greenhouse gases. Some backlash...