JimRob dead - TOS

[mystery-ak]

Prayers for his family.
I don't recall when I signed on there. I got Zotted over the Cruz or lose comment I made.
Allowed back and then another zotting when I said that Catholics should withhold contributions until the anti-Catholics wee straightened out.
@mystery-ak invited me here via PM and checked it for a while before signing up.
One of the mods from over there asked me to come back an I laughed.
Very happy here!

  Thank you...

[Canuck Conservative]

So what was the relationship between Armstrong and the Robinsons? @Canuck Conservative  - are you implying something financial?

There's a lot about FR that nobody knows.

However, we can still ask questions, and honestly, it looks real strange that only MA is allowed to make personal blog posts on the Main page, when no one else is. And then the quarterly fundraisers that run behind every day except the last two, right on schedule.

I would also point out that TBR is able to run on about $100 per year (I think I got that right), while FR seems to "require" $320,000 every year. Yes, they might have more members, but still ... 3200 times more for expenses?!

And, the Robinsons have never revealed what all that large donation money is actually spent on, and have never agreed to an independent, outside audit. Yet they still expect members to fork over $320K every year without question.

Maybe I've been scammed too much, but all those facts collectively smell funny.

[Lando Lincoln]

Yeah, I’m moving on. I’m just happy I wandered the forum wilderness following myst (and @Luis Gonzalez) until she planted her own stake.

[mystery-ak]

There's a lot about FR that nobody knows.

However, we can still ask questions, and honestly, it looks real strange that only MA is allowed to make personal blog posts on the Main page, when no one else is. And then the quarterly fundraisers that run behind every day except the last two, right on schedule.

I would also point out that TBR is able to run on about $100 per year (I think I got that right), while FR seems to "require" $320,000 every year. Yes, they might have more members, but still ... 3200 times more for expenses?!

And, the Robinsons have never revealed what all that large donation money is actually spent on, and have never agreed to an independent, outside audit. Yet they still expect members to fork over $320K every year without question.

Maybe I've been scammed too much, but all those facts collectively smell funny.

I wish that was the case but it costs about 1k a year just for just the server....and btw our yearly thon will be in a month or two...

[Free Vulcan]

Maybe I've been scammed too much, but all those facts collectively smell funny.

I remember around 2004 give or take that FR was starting to have real influence, not just online but in the streets. I recall threads about developing and expanding that presence and influencing govt at all levels toward more conservatism.

It got to a boiling point of actually starting to happen, then JR just waved a hand and shut it all down. At that point I knew we just got the bait and switcharooney.

[Bigun]

Yeah, I'd like to know too....

Never heard of him until today. Never heard of Delta 7 at FR either. Must have been after I pulled anchor.

[Bigun]

Yeah, I’m moving on. I’m just happy I wandered the forum wilderness following myst (and @Luis Gonzalez) until she planted her own stake.

Ditto!

[roamer_1]

RIPJimRob

Prayers for the family.
 

[Luis Gonzalez]

RIP to Jim. I was class of 99 over there, and posted there until it was obvious I was going to get banned. So I just said my bit and left of my own volition (never got the zot). Still, I expressed a lot of opinions and posted a few facts over there, and I'm grateful for that opportunity.

I think I was in that class of '99 group. Was banned and resurrected a few times until I think @ 2003 or so.

Learned a lot there, and grew a lot.

Unfortunately, FB was a grouping of what appeared to be easily scammed older people who (mostly by the end of my tenure there) didn't really know what the f#ck they were talking about.

The best part of FR, for me is this right here. Some of my oldest friends hang here so I thank JimRob for providing a platform where I could find you, Bigun, Lando, mystery, Cyber Liberty, et al.

I am both blessed and thankful for that.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

At some point I decided this would be my last political forum. Thing is I joined her back in 2011, there was another forum like True blue liberty or something, but that exploded as did libertypost. But yeah, this is it for me.

[Cyber Liberty]

I think I was in that class of '99 group. Was banned and resurrected a few times until I think @ 2003 or so.

Learned a lot there, and grew a lot.

Unfortunately, FB was a grouping of what appeared to be easily scammed older people who (mostly by the end of my tenure there) didn't really know what the f#ck they were talking about.

The best part of FR, for me is this right here. Some of my oldest friends hang here so I thank JimRob for providing a platform where I could find you, Bigun, Lando, mystery, Cyber Liberty, et al.

I am both blessed and thankful for that.

Thank you for the kind words!  I am equally pleased that you turned up here too!

[Cyber Liberty]

At some point I decided this would be my last political forum. Thing is I joined her back in 2011, there was another forum like True blue liberty or something, but that exploded as did libertypost. But yeah, this is it for me.

There was an insane woman at Liberty Post that wanted to kill me, so I beat it out of there!

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

There was an insane woman at Liberty Post that wanted to kill me, so I beat it out of there!

Yes it was a harem of weirdos and misfits, white supremacists and russian bots. It could be hilarious at times though.

The founder was a guy nutjob who believed that legally he didn't need a driver's license to drive. Soveigrn citizen type. That didn't last long as you can imagine!

[rustynail]

There was an insane woman at Liberty Post that wanted to kill me, so I beat it out of there!

Palo Verde?

[Luis Gonzalez]

BTW. I believe that catfishing was invented in FR.

[Luis Gonzalez]

There was an insane woman at Liberty Post that wanted to kill me, so I beat it out of there!

Maybe not a woman at all!

Palo Verde in Spanish sort of means green stick.

Tranny with diseased member maybe?

[Millee]

I joined in 2005 and was "zotted" in 2007 for being a "troll".  Met a lot of fun people whom I'm friends with to this day, so for that I'm grateful.

RIP, Mr. Robinson.

[Cyber Liberty]

Palo Verde?

No, but that one's fittings were pretty loose.  LP was my first and only foray into an "anti-freep" forum, and quickly saw how unsustainable that format is.  I've seen an anti-briefer site too.  Geesh!

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Now if I was an bleep I would post this to the news:

 

But i'm not so there's that...

[Lando Lincoln]

Maybe not a woman at all!

Palo Verde in Spanish sort of means green stick.

Tranny with diseased member maybe?

Ha! We still think alike, friend. That was my thought precisely. Is there something wrong with us?

[Cyber Liberty]

Ha! We still think alike, friend. That was my thought precisely. Is there something wrong with us?

If you are in a large enough group and you can't spot the wackadoos, it's you!

[mountaineer]

FR seems to "require" $320,000 every year. Yes, they might have more members, but still ... 3200 times more for expenses?!

Yeah, most of us ex-FReepers have questioned the financials for years. $320,000 is a lot of visits to Olive Garden.

[Lando Lincoln]

Now if I was an bleep I would post this to the news:

 

But i'm not so there's that...

lol. Someone on his obit posted “Well, bye”.  Good spirited, I hope.

[mountaineer]

There was an insane woman at Liberty Post that wanted to kill me, so I beat it out of there!

That place definitely was Crazy Town.

Wasn't the crazy lady Goldi?

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

That place definitely was Crazy Town.

Wasn't the crazy lady Goldi?

I liked Goldi but if you read that forum when it finally closed up shop, she had no friends, no family, no next of kin when she passed. That always blew my mind. They called the police and apparently there was nobody else they could locate that knew her.

[berdie]

I registered with FR in 2006 or there about. It was a fun site with lots of interesting commentary. Some where along the way if you made a post that was even mildly out of step the same group of posters would go into attack mode. Life is way too short. So I just left. No muss no fuss no opus. I doubt anyone would have known me or cared anyway.

I am so glad I found this site by accident. Finding a lot of familiar names was a bonus. Well moderated and for the most part civil discourse. Thank you @mystery-ak !

That being said, I hold no ill will toward JimRob. I never had any personal confrontations. So RIP. I'm sure his poor health didn't help his attitude about a lot of things.

[Bigun]

Thank you for the kind words!  I am equally pleased that you turned up here too!

Likewise!

[jmyrlefuller]

I wish that was the case but it costs about 1k a year just for just the server....and btw our yearly thon will be in a month or two...

I was going to say, Fullervision.net (my personal site) runs a little under $100 a year and that's with far less bandwidth, storage, a largely static, one-way operation, and being hosted somewhere in the third world. It would only make sense that this site would have a larger bill.

[Smokin Joe]

Someone over there is using your handle these days.

My handle over there is Smokin' Joe. There is/was another who goes by Smokin Joe (like my handle here, which would not accept the apostrophe), without the '. I objected to that when they signed up, because the difference is so small as to be ignored if someone says something that is legally actionable, but that complaint fell on deaf ears.

One more reason to stop posting there. Rarely, (because I still have an account there) I will throw in a comment or prayer request.

[Fishrrman]

Upfront: I was banned from FR three times (not once, not twice, but THREE times).
I have not changed from those years, but the site -- and its members -- are now comin' around more to those (cough) "realities" that conservatives tried to sweep under the carpet for far too long.

Having said that, can FR survive without Jim Robinson?
Will his two boys have the ability to keep the thing going?
At this time... hard to say.

Maybe, for the right offer, the site will be sold.

Hey, Mystery... want to expand your reach...?

[Cyber Liberty]

That place definitely was Crazy Town.

Wasn't the crazy lady Goldi?

Goldi was decent to me....

[mountaineer]

Upfront: I was banned from FR three times (not once, not twice, but THREE times).

Ditto. And always w/o explanation.

Having said that, can FR survive without Jim Robinson?
Will his two boys have the ability to keep the thing going?

That guy Canuck was talking about (a few replies up) may want to take it over. 

[jmyrlefuller]

Admittedly my history over there was relatively short (I think I was active for about a year in 2007-2008 during the infamous Thompson vs. Hunter feud, before I got the zot for flying off the handle in a Sunday talk show thread). I remember some good times running talk radio threads. I remember doing Nielsen analysis of the ratings, lead-ins, lead-outs, etc.

I didn't have a lot of direct run-ins with Robinson, don't remember much about my time there, and never met the guy personally. Robinson, unfortunately, went off the rails. He'd been ill for a long time and you could tell it was affecting his capacity to reason. Not to mention the blatant grifting that still goes on over there, which I've never liked. But that is about as far as I am willing to go as far as criticizing a dead man.

He is in God's hands now, and everything that will entail.

[mountaineer]

Goldi was decent to me....

I could be wrong, then, about her being a nut. I vaguely remember the name Palo Verde, but nothing else about her.

[Cyber Liberty]

Upfront: I was banned from FR three times (not once, not twice, but THREE times).
I have not changed from those years, but the site -- and its members -- are now comin' around more to those (cough) "realities" that conservatives tried to sweep under the carpet for far too long.

Having said that, can FR survive without Jim Robinson?
Will his two boys have the ability to keep the thing going?
At this time... hard to say.

Maybe, for the right offer, the site will be sold.

Hey, Mystery... want to expand your reach...?

Well, there's John and Chris, and there's someone named DeFoe, who I think deals with the software .....

[Cyber Liberty]

I could be wrong, then, about her being a nut. I vaguely remember the name Palo Verde, but nothing else about her.

Nutcase I knew was GalOnTheBay or some such....

[mystery-ak]

I think I was in that class of '99 group. Was banned and resurrected a few times until I think @ 2003 or so.

Learned a lot there, and grew a lot.

Unfortunately, FB was a grouping of what appeared to be easily scammed older people who (mostly by the end of my tenure there) didn't really know what the f#ck they were talking about.

The best part of FR, for me is this right here. Some of my oldest friends hang here so I thank JimRob for providing a platform where I could find you, Bigun, Lando, mystery, Cyber Liberty, et al.

I am both blessed and thankful for that.

Thanks Luis...

[Luis Gonzalez]

Ha! We still think alike, friend. That was my thought precisely. Is there something wrong with us?

Hopefully.

[libertybele]

Hopefully.

It's the people that claim that nothing is wrong with them that you have to worry about.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Palo verde was a very sweet lady, she was into a lot of conspiracy theories and such. I remember her, i don't recall her saying an unkind word about anyone.

https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:paloverde/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change

I specifically remember her talking about the desert a lot.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I think I was in that class of '99 group. Was banned and resurrected a few times until I think @ 2003 or so.

Learned a lot there, and grew a lot.

Unfortunately, FB was a grouping of what appeared to be easily scammed older people who (mostly by the end of my tenure there) didn't really know what the f#ck they were talking about.

The best part of FR, for me is this right here. Some of my oldest friends hang here so I thank JimRob for providing a platform where I could find you, Bigun, Lando, mystery, Cyber Liberty, et al.

I am both blessed and thankful for that.

Ditto here on finding others I knew. Bigun led me here and away from the arrogance TOS displayed.

I consider that I am grateful to have experienced TOS, as it illuminated to me how truly fortunate we all here are for the way our BR managers handle things here.

A true blessing to have a forum to find out about and share news and views in an open and (mostly) friendly forum.

And I say this in spite of being unfairly sanctioned once by a moderator, now old history.

[Luis Gonzalez]

It's the people that claim that nothing is wrong with them that you have to worry about.

I tell my kids, nieces and nephews that if they ever find that I am the voice of reason on anything, to immediately call an attorney. 

[Luis Gonzalez]

BTW. I believe that catfishing was invented in FR.

Maaaaaan!

Nobody touched this one!

Telling. 

[jmyrlefuller]

BTW. I believe that catfishing was invented in FR.

You mean, that classy green eyed blonde wasn't who I thought she was? Perish the thought!

[Cyber Liberty]

You mean, that classy green eyed blonde wasn't who I thought she was? Perish the thought!

Hey...she saw a Host by the Moon!  Who among us can argue with that?

[the OlLine Rebel]

Jim's ego ultimately wrote checks his butt couldn't cash. He thought he was a national player and kingmaker in GOP politics, especially with the upcoming Iowa primary after he cast his lot with Trump. I told him straight he was a putz and political pissant in this state and I had far more influence than he did, and mine was small.

He didn't like that, he stomped around and talked alot of big mouth after he zotted me but he knew it was true. I know he and his minions camped here from time to time, so I let posted the very same thing here for him to read.

Such a sad downfall from a very promising start. He just flushed it down the toilet around the mid-2000's and it was like watching a slow train wreck.

What could have been.

Funny, since I see alot of harumphing on FR as if even now, they are that big an imprint in conservative(?) politics.  Even now, hardly anyone knows what it is.

I loved it, until the Ever-Trumpism got indeed, fascistic, but never had the delusion that I was making such a big impact by being on FR.  I recall people posting about website visits, etc, and FR hardly was a blip, even c.2018.