Looks like one of the Robinson brothers from Free Republic has gone missing (still offline)

[Mrs. Overall]

Latest update on Facebook about the "new server" so that they can get back online (after 2 days):

"Thank you all very much for your patience, but I'm still waiting to hear the latest from John myself. I'm guessing he's up to his eye balls in computer parts and hasn't had the time to call or write." (Jim Robinson, rimjob, referring to his brother, John Robinson, who also "runs" Free Republic).

And a response from a freeper:

"I am curious. JR gets $350,000 a year in donations, plus $46,000 in veterans benefits from taxpayers. That's $1000/DAY. Where does the money go? $1000 a day pays for a LOT of servers and bandwidth. Begging for more money (needs $7k for a server?) while not accounting for the previous $$ smells like scam."

Hilarious!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Republic/141344792800

[muntrv]

1. Who misses RimJob?

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. RimJob has a Mrs.?

Oh lordy, say it ain't so.............

[Occulus]

31. But mothers are protective.

Best of both worlds.

[arcane1]

2. They could ask those same questions about the teabagger super-PACs they donate to

Is it possible for them to finally figure out they are getting ripped off?

Probably not; a few might wise up but the rest are just too dense

[Arkansas Granny]

3. What's this? A little dissension in the ranks?

[msanthrope]

4. Freepers finally catching on to the scam???? nt

[Angry Dragon]

5. So much love over there it brings tears to ones' eyes

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. RimJob has a brother?

What does he look like? Not like Rim, I hope...............

[Mrs. Overall]

7. Yep. rimjob's brother, John, helps run the site and it looks like John is MIA with the "new server."

[PCIntern]

10. I thought his name was "Blow". Nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

36. You made me LOL

[Arugula Latte]

46. The other sibling is "Hand"

but he keeps to himself.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Pictures. We need pictures, for comic relief.

[rurallib]

14. could be on the old Appalachian Trail

if you know what I mean

[randome]

16. Or Argentina.

[RudynJack]

37. John

is JimRob's son.

[Brickbat]

8. "Where does the money go?"

Hookers and blow. The sooner they come to terms with it, the sooner healing can begin.

[malaise]

9. Don't you know this shite costs money

[amandabeech]

28. Hey, don't try guilt by association to tarnish the reputation of a perfectly wonderful product! n/t

[Kalidurga]

13. I forgot to stock up on popcorn.

But, this is still good. I wonder what island the brother ran off to.

[OldDem2012]

15. Ooooooooo....ziiiiinnnnggggeeeerrrr! nt.

[Motown_Johnny]

17. so 350 + 46 = 365?

wow, they really are the stupid party

[TeamPooka]

45. I liked that math too. :)

[Lint Head]

18. Maybe his meth lab blew up.

[Arugula Latte]

22. Possibly his turkey fryer, as well.

[winter is coming]

38. His turkey fryer is probably an integral part of of his meth lab. n/t

[JHB]

42. It's definitely and integral part of his server.

How else do you motivate hamsters to keep running on that wheel?

[sad-cafe]

19. wasn't there a story about 2 brothers blowing up their home

cooking meth?

[Brickbat]

20. TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, JOHN! RUN, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!

[Arugula Latte]

23. ...

[sad-cafe]

24. I love your penguin animation

that is just cute.

[Arugula Latte]

25. Thanks!

Welcome to DU!

[sad-cafe]

26. thank you

for the warm welcome.

[Th1onein]

29. LOLOLOL!

[KeepItReal]

51. LMAO!!

[2theleft]

21. " FreeRepublic is a welfare scam. More money wil fix it!"

They are getting fiesty over there.

[longship]

27. It's not the servers!

We all know what runs Rimjob's so-called servers:

Trust me. Click through!

[AverageJoe90]

40. LMAO. Just. LMAO.

LMAO, LMAO, LMAO, LMAO, LMAAAAAAOOOOO! lulz.

[frylock]

30. bad news. johnbob may have to drive all the way to san josey for a handy..

anyone know any good DBAs with Windows 3.1 experience?

[madinmaryland]

32. Heh. I don't think their machines have the required 640K in RAM to run Windows 3.1

[frylock]

33. duh. why do you think they have so many fund drives?

do you have any idea what RAM costs in Windows 3.1 years?!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

44. A boot disk will get that expanded memory up to 640K

[Historic NY]

34. They got to stop buying cheap used junk...

meanwhile Freepers world wide are going through withdrawal. Hey maybe we can tempt with with a taste...

[SaveAmerica]

35. $46k in VA benefits is massive.

[grasswire]

39. Is he a veteran?

I didn't think so.

[SaveAmerica]

56. Maybe his wife? I wonder why the poster thinks he's

getting that much in benefits each year?

[SaveAmerica]

57. I looked around online - he's a Navy Veteran

[Jim.Rob58]

41. My first post at DU

Hey guys, it takes a lot of money to pay me and John to run a text only website like FR. We also don't allow videos. If we did, we would have to have a freepathon every week instead of every month. We're telling all of our members that the server crashed and it could cost us thousands and thousands of dollars and for them to get out there credit-cards pronto. We need the MONEY!!!

If you've ever tried to post anything at FR, you know the endless hoops we make folks jump through. It's all about organization, which by the way never seems to work, but hell, who cares; it makes people think we're running a well organized website. Some of those buttons on our site are only there for looks (don't press-um). And the boxes you use to post comments, well, ours is setup with the least amount of features possible. Matter fact, we make our members learn HTML just to be able to post in italics. By the time you've jumped through all the hoops just to post a comment, you've probably forgotten what the hell you were going to write. Just send in your dollar to this weeks freepathon fundraiser and chear with us as the meeter goes sideways!! Cause even though our site looks and works like crap, we love your money!

Jim Rob

[The Straight Story]

43. Welcome to DU - we love your site

It is like cutting edge technology with all those scsi hamsters.

And your backups must be amazing. My team of engineers at chase handled 5000 servers and we would always go to your site when you had problems and learn how you fixed up things. We never thought of driving to San Jose or taking old parts from old machines instead of just, you know, buying parts and having them on hand before time. We had a depot full of parts just sitting there, think of the things we could have done with that money, not to mention the space we needed to keep them all.

And backups? Lord, we wasted so much time on those - first with tape then drive arrays via fiber optic, when all we had to do was just figure out a smart way, like you are doing, to get information off a dead drive. We took the wimpy way out, not the manly tech god way.


You are a visionary that makes people like me realize we are in a mental wheelchair when it comes to technology when compared to your crack team.

[uppityperson]

49. Welcome to DU. The software you use to reduce complex thoughts and ideas down to simplistic

incomplete sentences and jingoistic grunts much also not be inexpensive. God luck with all your future endeavors and may you continue to occupy them idjits and keep them off the streets.

[Cirque du So-What]

52. I would alert on ya

but considering the way juries have been running lately, I might get a 0-6 'leave' decision

[hrmjustin]

53. +1000

[hootinholler]

54. Have you met Bob Boudelang?

There's that photo of you and a certain celebrity, did you and Coulter do it?

[NoGOPZone]

47. IRS finally caught up with him? nt

[Ganja Ninja]

48. I'm telling you, freepers are writing checks left and right and Rim Job is raking in the cash.

His servers are working just fine, he's simply not going to put that site back up until the donation rate starts to drop. It's all just a scam.

[cali]

50. 'fess up! Who's the guilty party for this gem?

Александр Безукладников Foolish American Capitalists! In Soviet Union, glory of servers is maintained by power of the party. Pathetic Americanska believe instead in power of almighty dollar and fail!

[LittleBlue]

55. Hahahahaha

That's a poignant question. Your answer, Jim?

[Berlum]

58. Republican "Family Values" come home to roost

The Repubbies even rip off their own deluded clan of haters and fear mongers.

No honor among scallywags (R).