Posted on 11/07/2008 3:58:47 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Revising and extending my remarks:
We're receiving lots of complaints lately from freshly banned liberals, trolls and malcontents. Well, Free Republic has not changed and will not change. We are NOT "fair and balanced." Never will be.
We are biased toward God, country, Life and Liberty. Marriage, family and traditional values. Constitution, inalienable rights, private property and limited government. Small government, small spending, small taxes. National security, national sovereignty, strong defense and secure borders. Individual rights, individual responsibility and self-government. Privacy, individual and family security, self-defense and right to keep and bear arms. Rights to freely exercise our religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of dissent and freedom to resist government intervention, intrusion, tyranny or abuse. Right to constitutional government and constitutionalist/originalist judges, not liberal activists.
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POSTED: NO TRESPASSING!
Oh yeah. And you can shove global warming and the U.N. where the sun don't shine!
Repeal McCain-Feingold!
No bailouts!
Drill, baby, drill!
Good gun control: aim small, miss small.
Keep your powder dry.
I understand that God is listening 24/7. Prayer is always welcome on FR.
Then you’d probably love the 3 x 5 Stars N’ Bars flying right above the gate where the sign resides.
[hey...we’re polite people...we do give fair warning]...:)
‘Course I’m back a dead-end dirt lane on a mountain so anybody screwing with my “politically incorrect stuff” gets scared off right quick.
He is, else you wouldn't have posted this. God Bless you Jim.
Since the election I have not turned on the TV,
not even faux newz. I listen to Rush and read FR.
The only place to get the Truth.
There’s an Atlas Shrugged list? And I’m just now hearing about it? Where have I been and how can I get on it?
Course I’m back a dead-end dirt lane on a mountain
That sounds like a great place to be livin'. I'm partial to the desert. I often dream of hookin' up our home (36' fifth wheel) and headin' for the wide open yet isolated areas around Death Valley...or even between Barstow and Stateline.
I lift you up in prayer, always, that you may do as God calls you to do; to be a beacon in the night, a light for Liberty and Justice for all - that this Republic shall not perish from the earth...
May God bless you, and may God bless America.
I’ve spent my entire life in the mountains.
Any time I go somewhere that I can see more than a few hundred feet of unobstructed view [i.e., no trees] it freaks me out...:))
I’ll never forget the first my family went through the N & S. Carolina flatlands from Myrtle Beach on our way to the Smokies.
The sight of *miles* of flat land and endless, hypnotic rows of tobacco plants nearly gave me a panic attack.
I felt so naked and exposed.
I’m in a hollow [”holler”] where 1 mountain 2 ridges come together in a “V” shape.
It’s very sheltering, comforting and more importantly, easily defensible.
[I’m sure whoever built this log house in the 1700s had that in mind because of Indian attacks which were common back then]
Bless them for it.
I feel safe with my back against the hills.
[having to drive across Oklahoma would probably make me totally bonkers]...;-D
I just lost two lifetime friends (married couple) over this election. They are staunch Democrat public school teachers who are Christians, and hate all things Republican, which required that politics were never spoken of when we were together (for the last 30 years since I was a young teen). Whenever they would Bush-bash, or praise the CA Teacher’s Association, or demean homeschooling families (of which we are one), or blast the war in Iraq, or talk about how much all their European friends & family hate Americans, I always kept my mouth shut.
Wednesday, the day after the election, I refused to remain silent any longer. I sent out a brief email to about 300 of MY friends & family, being honest about my shock at Obummer winning the election, and my horror at what this means for my life and my children’s lives as well. I included a powerful Scripture verse (Isaiah 30:21), and a call to stand together as Conservatives and as Christians as we will certainly face greater persecution & ridicule for holding to the traditions that this country was birthed upon.
I am still receiving stacks of reply emails, thanking me up and down for what I shared in that email — how so many people were afraid to voice their grief over Obummer getting in the White House (for fear of being labeled a racist). These two dear friends of mine were the ONE AND ONLY response I received back that skewered me and carved me up like a Thanksgiving turkey — for having the audacity to insinuate that Christian conservatives should have never voted for Obummer. They told me they never want to hear from me again. I am devastated by how they responded, but I emailed them back with the following statement:
“Everything about this man should grieve us all — whether we are believers or not. This is a frightening time for Christians and families especially, but not cause for us
to give up hope. God is in control of all elections and leaders, and we can trust Him to guide and provide, rather to rely on a radical government which has no regard for our military, for parents’ rights, or for our constitutional freedoms. THAT is who we now have in leadership in Washington, come January — also with the Congressional races siding with the new President as well. And I will NEVER apologize for speaking the truth about what this country just did, in electing a half-white President who rejects half of his identity by calling himself a black man only, and who has been called The Messiah, but is really just a shallow fraud.”
Yah think I was too harsh? Just keeping the main thing the main thing...and setting a strong example for my children, which matters more to me than popularity or friendship anyway.
However, you strike me as someone who knows very well of the yearning for national repentance. Barack Obama, in the trials he may bring, could well be the tool that brings that about! God is stern sometimes. The Old Testament history books seem a constant cycle of Israel's prosperity -> sin -> tribulation -> repentence, and back to prosperity. He is free and sovereign. He is also exceedingly merciful, and ALWAYS good. It is Him we should fear, not Barack Obama, who is but a mortal "king".
"Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me."
BTW read Psalm 2. It is incredibly prescient for our times!
Your ears shall hear a word behind you saying,
"This is the way, walk in it,"
Whenever you turn to the right hand
Ir whenever you turn to the left,
You will also defile the covering of your images of silver
And the ornament of your molded images of gold.
You will throw them away as an unclean thing:
You will say to them, "Get Away!"
“Free Republic is private property.”
Hear, hear!
Pro Life is Pro GOD...
A Government that can’t Protect it’s citizens( Innocent and Unborn) is a Failure!
bttt
Thanks for that post, JimRob. Hope it’s a must read sticky of all new trolls that want to become members.
Can we start kicking the gloom-and-doom defeatists off of here, too? They can start their own site called www.wesurrender.com or something.
We don't need them dragging us down if we're going to fight the good fight.
BTTT
ping and very well stated Jim!
WooHoo Jim! Give ‘em heck! I love this place.
FR doesn't need “change.” If that's what the trolls want, they can go talk to Obama and stay the he$$ away from us!
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