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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:40 PM
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Freeper Freaks At Kid Watching "Columbine..." LOL Alert!
I don't remember the Gone With The Wind part, ha. Typical Freeper Freak Out...yikes. Code blue, STAT, this lady's flat out lost it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1084706/posts

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brainwashed_youth Donating Member (640 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:43 PM
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1. communist traitor?.....
.....AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, Michael Moore is the greatest.....
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:47 PM
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7. Go Michael!
It's just like the Freeps who think it is so outrageous that Kerry testified to the VERIFIED atrocities committed by SOME NOT ALL US troops in Viet Nam. They aren't freaked out that these things HAPPENED...just that anybody would talk about it. The same with GWB. They want him to be a hero, they are invested in it in some weird way and the fact that his whole Iraq adventure is playing out exactly like the war protesters said, doesn't bother them at all, unless some "commie" brings it up.

Michael was right....fictional president, fictional reasons for the war. SHAME ON YOU MR. BUSH!
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:43 PM
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2. How about a quote
I don't want to raise their "hit count"/...
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:55 PM
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15. Here's part of it
Edited on Tue Feb-24-04 05:57 PM by Virginian
"Dear Editor:

I am livid!!!! I just found out from my daughter that she has been forced for the last two days and will have to continue again tomorrow to watch the lying communist documentary by the liar and traitor to this the greatest country ever, the United States, entitled “Bowling for Columbine”!

I have “tolerated” her statements to my daughter and her classmates, that...”President Bush did not win the election, that he stole it, that Gone With the Wind was the biggest farce of a movie ever because the battlefield scenes never happened, and white women were not terrified , tormented, raped and murdered!

I have not sent my children to school to be indoctrinated to become lying, stealing cheating communists! I refuse to pay the salary of any such so called “educator, threw my taxes."
...

edited to remove my unkind comment
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TNOE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 06:01 PM
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22. "threw my taxes"
dead give away....... she needs some kind of educator.
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 06:11 PM
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25. Bush Through Away Our Freedoms Threw The Patriot Act
Spell check that before you send it, LOL!
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:43 PM
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3. Too funny
Try ignorance! It worked so well in Europe during the Dark Age!
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:49 PM
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9. Harper Valley PTA
Did you see the response that said, "You should run for school board." ROFL!
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 06:16 PM
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26. Unfortunately, idiots like that
DO run for school boards far too often, and far too often manage to win by trumpeting such ignorance and arrogance. My own school board has been invaded by such types, who to me, frankly, are the REAL traitors of this country, and I'm seriously considering running next year (no openings this year).

My parents are retired teachers, and they had to deal with idiot ignoramuses like that all the fucking time, it's one of the main reasons why they retired early because they just couldn't take it anymore. Especially since they taught English and history/social studies, where there was always the potential for "hot-button issues" coming up, there were always parents who didn't like what their kids had to read, or write, or the way my mom "indoctrinated" history, and bullshit like that, etc., etc.

Infiltrating school boards beginning in the 70's is how the wingnuts began taking over everything in the first place, you know.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:45 PM
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4. That, my friends, is why teachers need tenure
I have not sent my children to school to be indoctrinated to become lying, stealing cheating communists! I refuse to pay the salary of any such so called “educator, threw my taxes. I demand her immediate resignation! She should be used for an example to all other such like minded so called educators!!!!

Eliminate tenure and weak-kneed administrators will be constantly bullied into firing teachers with unpopular views.

Good for the teacher for exposing her students to different points of view than what they have been hearing around the dinner table all their lives.
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Badger1 Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:47 PM
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5. Teacher is probably
a member of that "terrorist group", NEA!
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AndyP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:47 PM
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6. The teacher should get a raise
Although she'll probably have some secret agents take her away in the middle of class for "reasons of homeland security". jeez.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:49 PM
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8. Do you ever see this on DU when someone posts a letter?
Before you send this, spell-check it, and make it clear who the "her" is.

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AndyP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:50 PM
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11. haha
I wonder if the mother actually went to school. :nopity:
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:56 PM
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17. Before You Send It....
Edited on Tue Feb-24-04 05:56 PM by K8-EEE
...you may want to attend a 3rd grade-level writing class, and perhaps learn to express a simple opinion without GOING APE SHIT CRAZY!
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wellstone_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:50 PM
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10. Best FR thread EVER!
by "country dummy!" that is priceless
best of all are all the freeper calls for him to spell check and to supply "an antecedent for her" Lest the governor of West Virginia think our complainer is "a country hick"

absolutely hilarious.
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:50 PM
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12. "THREW MY TAXES"?????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

hope she can write better than DADDY!

"I refuse to pay the salary of any such so called “educator, threw my taxes."
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:59 PM
Response to Reply #12
21. Eny hillbily noes
Thets THROWED my taxas
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 08:36 PM
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37. The frikikin thread title is named, "Lettor to the editor."
Sheesh. Her poor kid, I certainly hope he/she gets a better educayshun than mommy! Sounds like she might be, despite her mom's efforts at censorship.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:53 PM
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13. Alright, which one of us posted this?
Forget about the letters and spell checking, lets all just get some trumpets, lots of trumpets, and start going around all the school all over the country, blowing our trumpets and wait for the wall of these wretched schools to start falling down!!! It sound like it would do us good to let off a little steam.

Whoever it is...you clown! :+
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:53 PM
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14. Darn it, why did they have to encourage her to edit it?
I liked it just as it was.
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:55 PM
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16. GOT IT BEFORE IT GETS DELETED!!!
To: countrydummy
I have not sent my children to school to be indoctrinated to become lying, stealing cheating communists! Damn straight! They should be indoctrinated to become lying stealing, cheating Neo-conservatives!

Seriously, showing "Bowling" might be over the top, unless the instructor also provides an alternate view or arguments. Still, (if this is high school) the kids should be able to discern for themselves if a teacher is spouting BS or not. I wanted my daughters to be exposed to as many diverse views as possible.

I remember all the propaganda my history teachers tried to sell me about Vietnam when I was in high school. I didn't buy it. It never bothered me when a teacher had different views than me.


23 posted on 02/24/2004 2:53:20 PM PST by teach1st
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:57 PM
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18. I don't think they've ever deleted any of my posts...
But you never know!
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:58 PM
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20. WOOOOHOOOOOO
they have been INFILTRATED!!!

:D

GOOD JOB!!
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 07:42 PM
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29. I don't get it
I posted something on the free republic where all I said was "I don't think Dean will be Nader's vp," and I got banned after some idiot there found my name over here. You admit you're a Democrat outright and you stay on? How do you do that?
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 07:46 PM
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32. I don't know
I didn't know that they deleted Dems at freep. Maybe they haven't connected me to DU yet. I'm relatively new here.
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 07:52 PM
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34. Yeah
Edited on Tue Feb-24-04 07:54 PM by Rationality
They're rabid there.

Actually I posted as "The Fourth" on there and said here I was doing that. Took only 10 minutes to get busted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=385054#385097

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083486/posts
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 09:39 PM
Response to Reply #18
41. OMG - that was YOU?
How hilarious - when I saw that I couldn't believe I was reading something so sensible on FR. My mind was damn near blown! Figures it was a DUer. All the pieces fall into place...
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 09:59 PM
Response to Reply #41
44. Somebody over there just called me on it...
..kind of.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 10:25 PM
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45. Details? n/t
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 10:29 PM
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46. Details
Another literate marvel wrote: Bet ya thought noone noticed your little jab at us freepers I monitor DU on occasion BTW.

To which the original poster added: I noticed it, just I was already in a rage :) lol

And I replied: I'm terribly sorry. I wasn't aware that freepers considered themselves to be lying, stealing, cheating Neo-conservatives.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 10:39 PM
Response to Reply #46
47. Wow, if you don't get banned, color me impressed.
n/t
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 10:49 PM
Response to Reply #46
48. You haven't been banned yet... how do you do it?
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 11:12 PM
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51. Simple!
They know I'm an NEA terrorist and are appeasing me so that I don't order my fellow evil-doers to start scraping fingernails on blackboard all across the nation.
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 03:10 AM
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54. that miserable bitch sent out one of those lynchmobs and nailed ya.
Edited on Wed Feb-25-04 03:19 AM by Rationality
Comment #79 Removed by Moderator


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To: EggsAckley; JoJo Gunn; netmilsmom; 4mycountry; jriemer
ping

Post 79?

83 posted on 02/24/2004 9:55:07 PM PST by trussell (Member: Viking Kitty Society;New Charter member: Troll Patrol...See EggsAckley for membership.)
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To: teach1st; jimrob; admin
I'm terribly sorry. I wasn't aware that freepers considered themselves to be lying, stealing, cheating Neo-conservatives.
I find no humor in that remark! I am trying to make a point that my daughter is suffering the rants of a ultra liberal so called teacher. If you are trying to start a flame war on my little thread, I warn you now, I will have the thread removed first!


84 posted on 02/24/2004 11:02:35 PM PST by countrydummy (http://chat.agitator.dynip.com)
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To: trussell
thank you, and please note the next post.

85 posted on 02/24/2004 11:03:42 PM PST by countrydummy (http://chat.agitator.dynip.com)
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To: EggsAckley
This is her senior year (My daughter's)and she only has to make it to May now, I so wish I had been able to homeschool my girls all along! I would have had I been able. My sister and I are working on getting it all together so to speak, so that we can home school her babies!

86 posted on 02/24/2004 11:13:00 PM PST by countrydummy (http://chat.agitator.dynip.com)
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trussell and EggsActly go out banning the dissenters. Sorry dude. Still it was pretty funny watching countrydummy go off like she did in the last post. Like she is struggling so hard to keep her children's ears closed and protected from another point of view. Oh the agony!:evilgrin:
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 06:26 PM
Response to Reply #54
57. Yup, they banned me...
I am now an official troll.
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 07:35 PM
Response to Reply #57
60. Welcome to the club -- KSEC, you've been inducted too.
Edited on Wed Feb-25-04 07:46 PM by Rationality
It's actually an honor getting banned from that concentration camp.
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northofdenali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 06:50 PM
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59. OMFG - These people are MORANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is her senior year (My daughter's)and she only has to make it to May now, I so wish I had been able to homeschool my girls all along! I would have had I been able. My sister and I are working on getting it all together so to speak, so that we can home school her babies!"

Her poor sister's kids! These uneducated, illiterate, raving JERKS are going to homeschool? They don't even know that every state has standards, even for homeschooling?

ROFL!
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AndyP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 05:57 PM
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19. someone is at least intelligent over there
What are they doing over there? You mean free-thinking people actually post on that site?!?!
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buff2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 06:05 PM
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23. Countrydummy? ROTFLMAO!!!!!
The name fits a freeper....LOL
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 07:44 PM
Response to Reply #23
30. Hey! Don't make fun of us country folk
Not all of us are like that!
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southerngirlwriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 07:46 PM
Response to Reply #23
31. eerily accurate, eh?
:evilgrin:
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Rich Hunt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 06:09 PM
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24. what sort of parent
What sort of parent is she if her kids are that prone to turn into 'liars' and 'cheaters'?

She insults her own children.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 06:20 PM
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27. they didn't even understand that the movie is not about guns, it is
about violence in our society.

They conveniently foget that Moore is a long time member of the NRA, and a former instructor.

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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 11:50 PM
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53. Of course not! They've never seen it. The movie is really quite
innocuous. Just asks why we're so violent when our neighbors to the north with more guns and the same exposure to violent films and games are not. Very rational question for which we could desparately use an answer.
I think this woman gives us a clue though...
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EV1Ltimm Donating Member (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 07:03 PM
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28. gotta admire her convictions.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 07:48 PM
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33. Hey, I know this lady!
'this the greatest country ever'
Isn't she married to Bob Boudelang?
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 08:18 PM
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35. What is funny is how they kept correcting her mistakes
and telling her to tone it down so she wouldn't make freepers look bad. Then she came back with:

"yes, I should have went for a walk before writing it, then again......threw should be through...lol, still mad!"

and she didn't realize she was still barely coherent.

One guy even pointed out that spell check would not pick up using "threw" in place of "through".
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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 08:24 PM
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36. That was my favorite part.
Almost all of them busted on her for her spelling and grammar. Damn funny stuff.
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distortionmarshall Donating Member (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 08:58 PM
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38. and the coup de grace was....
.... from the put-the-hick-back-in-the-bottle department:


"Take a couple of minutes, grab a beer, watch the tube and get your mind straight. Take what you've written and edit the daylights out of it. The liberal media has a mental stereotype of what a conservative is, and we don't need to give them any ammunition."

rofl

it's weird - they ALMOST see how stupid they are....
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 09:31 PM
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40. Yeah that was a scream
Edited on Tue Feb-24-04 09:32 PM by yellowcanine
Right - "grab a beer and turn on the tube to get your mind straight."
Does that work for you? I was thinking, "What if she is a fundy and doesn't "believe in" drinking beer?" Too funny.
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 10:53 PM
Response to Reply #40
49. LMFAO It's getting biblical!
Edited on Tue Feb-24-04 10:57 PM by Rationality
To: countrydummy
I prayed for you and your daughter. God told me he would forgive her . Thank you Lord.

79 posted on 02/24/2004 7:50:35 PM PST by ksec
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oh yes, praise Jesus--*BWHAHAHAHAAHAHH!*

EDIT: Nevermind, Ksec's one of us. Nice shot.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 09:14 PM
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39. This guy could use a good education... comedy gold!!
Indocitrination is wrong, unless you are using the government to promote Christianity in schools.
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 09:47 PM
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42. Ok,fess up

Who is "countrydummy"? You did a brilliant job of infiltrating and got them to take the bait hook,line and sinker.Step forward and TAKE A BOW!!!! Bravo!!
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St. Jarvitude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 09:53 PM
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43. Idiot.
Every single movie ever shown at every school in both school districts I've been a part of has been 100% optional, by parental consent. I believe it is state law here in Illinois.
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 10:54 PM
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50. hehe these guys have gone over the edge
and are falling like a stone. Theyre extremism defined.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 11:18 PM
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52. That's how Marilyn Musgrave got her start
First got elected to Board of Ed. in Fort Morgan, Colorado. She was a total nutcase whacko then, and still is.
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Michael Costello Donating Member (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 03:27 AM
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55. Freepers are banned from mentioning DU
If you want another laugh, search for mentions of DU on FR. You won't find much - because the nazi FR admins ban discusson of DU on FR. If you find one, you'll find some new person mention DU and then several people reply to them "Oh we're not allowed to mention DU's existence! Talk of this has been banned by the leader!" Quite a scary place...
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nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 03:39 AM
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56. I'm sorry, but...
I can still spell when I'm pissed off. Being angry is no excuse for being stupid, and the opposite holds true as well.
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 06:28 PM
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58. ahaha OMFG
she's lost it


this part was the best "watch the lying communist documentary "
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 11:25 PM
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61. JimRob freaking following letter from Corbis lawyer!!
Edited on Wed Feb-25-04 11:35 PM by johnfunk
I smell major wrongwinger meltdown! Could this open up FR to a whole new wave of questions about copyright infringement? One can hope...

Subject: Kerry/Fonda image

February 23, 2004

VIA EMAIL AND U.S. MAIL

Jim Robinson www.freerepublic.com P.O. Box 9771 Fresno, CA 93794 USA

RE: www.freerepublic.com

Matter ID: 14-0486/John Kerry/Jane Fonda Image

Dear Jim Robinson:

Corbis is one of the largest digital image licensing companies in the world. All of the images in Corbis’ collection are subject to federal and international copyright protection. Indeed, all of the works found on the www.corbis.com web site bear appropriate copyright notices. Furthermore, we have a responsibility to our photographers to protect their intellectual property and pursue any possible cases of improper use.

It has recently come to Corbis’ attention that your company’s web site, www.freerepublic.com, through the web pages:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1080321/posts, http://www.berkeleydaily.org/photos/02-17-04/DoctoredKerry03%2Ejpg, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074196/posts, http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1080321/posts, , directly reproduces, adapts, displays, and distributes an unauthorized and altered version of Corbis images

#DWF15-563704 and #OF016339. This directly violates Corbis’ and the photographers’ exclusive rights to reproduce, adapt, display, distribute, and create derivative works.

Given the nature of the apparent copying and altering of this image, such infringements would be subject to statutory damages of $150,000 per infringement, in addition to costs and attorney’s fees.


Background: the altered photo was cooked up by Rick "Registered" Taylor and posted to FR -- apparently without warning it wasn't genuine. That's not parody. That's FRAUD. Will Rick get nailed by Corbis too? I'm sure they know by now that he raked it in on "Sore Loserman" merchandise, and can certainly afford to pay civil penalties.

The thread is here! Sit back and have the popcorn handy.

Oh, yes -- scroll down to the poster who tells that dumbass JimRobber not to send STUPID e-mails to Corbis' lawyer the way he did! That's just the beginning of the laffs and fun...

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