Hey! Where did the Freepers go?

[Ca3799]

Now where will I get my daily dose of 'crazy'? I'll be forced to read WorldNetDaily.

[Linty Fresh]

I noticed that today, too. I haven't been reading this board lately, because all the crazy shit on FR in the wake of Obama has made this place look positively vanilla in its rationality. People talking about disowning and disinheriting their kids for voting democrat, talking about all the millions their children were going to lose (like a millionaire would be spending his time on FR :rolleyes:). People talking about how Amerika was dead, and how civil war is coming. Sanity is often tedious, but madness is always interesting.

The owner, Jim Robinson, posted a vanity thread last night about how it was ALWAYS going to be a conservative board and that libs and dems wouldn't be allowed, so maybe we're seeing a DOS attack? If so, they should knock it off. I'm going through insanity withdrawal here. I've been reduced to trawling the Yuku.com right wing boards, and those fuckers are so crazy, it's boring. Making fun of them is like dynamiting fish at the base of the dam.

[Derleth]

Both of their nameservers seem to be down, so nobody can find out the IP address of the computer or computers hosting the site. Therefore it's impossible for me to tell whether the site itself is down. It could be an attack or just normal random outages, but the timing and the fact two computers (ns.robinson-defehr.com (209.157.64.254) and ns2.robinson-defehr.com (209.157.64.253)) are dead makes me think someone is doing this on purpose.

(Free Republic is owned by Robinson-DeFehr Consulting (in turn owned by John Robinson) in Fresno, according to whois, and so it's their nameservers that are authoritative when resolving freerepublic.com. Since both of them are down, the only people who know which IP address that domain points to would be those with that address in their cache somewhere. I don't have it so I can't help.)

(traceroute to 209.157.64.253 dead-ends at mg-2.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net (129.250.25.195), which appears to be a machine in California owned by Verio. I'm guessing it's the computer just upstream from the dead nameserver.)

[Guinastasia]

Well, they DID make Crank.Net (http://www.crank.net/politics.html)'s political section, so maybe there's something similiar linked. People have mentioned Little Green Footballs-is that any good?

Oh, and Live Journal has a Conservative community-it's usually pretty good for the moroni-not as good as the Freepers, but pretty decent.

[Squink]

Both of their nameservers seem to be down, so nobody can find out the IP address of the computer or computers hosting the site. Therefore it's impossible for me to tell whether the site itself is down. It could be an attack or just normal random outages, but the timing and the fact two computers (ns.robinson-defehr.com (209.157.64.254) and ns2.robinson-defehr.com (209.157.64.253)) are dead makes me think someone is doing this on purpose.
GoBama!!!!!

[Snowboarder Bo]

GoBama!!!!!

What do the Crimson Tide have to do with this?

[Steve MB]

The owner, Jim Robinson, posted a vanity thread last night about how it was ALWAYS going to be a conservative board and that libs and dems wouldn't be allowed, so maybe we're seeing a DOS attack?

Or maybe he shut down the board to do a mass purge of members who demonstrate insufficient ideological purity.

[elucidator]

What do the Crimson Tide have to do with this?

State name to be changed to al-Obama.

[Frank]

Or maybe he shut down the board to do a mass purge of members who demonstrate insufficient ideological purity.
Could be. The reaction of Norquist, Perkins, et al. to the election was that the Republican Party needs to throw out the moderates.

[elucidator]

Both of 'em?

[AdmiralCrunch]

What do the Crimson Tide have to do with this?

Even when things are looking dire, the right people can work miracles. Obama's schedule is going to be a bit tougher, though. In this metaphor, the SEC West is the Presidency, the SEC Championship is the auto bailout, and the national championship would be turning around the recession. Gobama!

[Linty Fresh]

Or maybe he shut down the board to do a mass purge of members who demonstrate insufficient ideological purity.

Could be. It's happened before. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Republic#Allegations_of_unfair_treatment_of_Giuliani_supporters)

[Sevastopol]

Or maybe he shut down the board to do a mass purge of members who demonstrate insufficient ideological purity. What a minute. Isn't this the very board friend Scylla is forever on about as the conservative equivalent of here? They purge members for ideology? More information please, I had the idea they'd be more permissive than the heavy handed moderation we experience.

[NinetyWt]

GoBama!!!!!
You know what's funny about that?

During the first week of October, I was at an out-of-town conference and a couple of attendees seemed really ignorant of anything of substance about the Obama campaign.

One of them remarked to the other "Yeah! People have vandalized the signs to make it look like Go 'Bama!". I looked at her like she had sprouted horns. "Um, no, that was one of the campaign slogans from the beginning - you know, Gobama? Go, Obama? ". I got a blank stare in return. The stoopid, it burns.

[Derleth]

"Yeah! People have vandalized the signs to make it look like Go 'Bama!"And I guess Alabama is the Crimson Tide, right? (Not that I think they have an algae problem.)

Hey, I just got where the hijack came from.

[The Hamster King]

Where have all the Freepers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the Freepers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the Freepers gone?
Gone to militias every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

[elucidator]

Jim Robinson's name was on the list.

The list is long.

Dirac Angestun Gesept!

[Derleth]

It's back up. I'm guessing it was a normal outage: It was too short to make for a very satisfying attack.

[Derleth]

To be precise, one of the two nameservers is back up (ns2.robinson-defehr.com). The other is still dead, so it looks like a random outage they've almost fixed.

[elucidator]

The People's hackers, under the guidance of the revolutionary cadres, will always defeat the hackers of the Facist running dogs!

[Der Trihs]

Jim Robinson's name was on the list.

The list is long.

Dirac Angestun Gesept!* sends Kaitempi agents to elucidator's house *

[Tuckerfan]

It's back up. I'm guessing it was a normal outage: It was too short to make for a very satisfying attack.

Pity. If they had any brains, they could exploit the outage. Claim it was the super secret Obama intel-squads who were planning on taking people out who disagreed with the dear leader. They could make vague hints about seeing people with blue berets outside their offices, strange helicopters, etc.

Idiots. They're too stupid to get with the crazy.

[Snowboarder Bo]

Pity. If they had any brains, they could exploit the outage. Claim it was the super secret Obama intel-squads who were planning on taking people out who disagreed with the dear leader. They could make vague hints about seeing people with blue berets outside their offices, strange helicopters, etc.

Idiots. They're too stupid to get with the crazy.

Dude, you should totally register over there and prod them about this. You know they'll run with the ball once they see the play developing. :D

[Snowboarder Bo]

State name to be changed to al-Obama.

haha

now THAT would piss off the rednecks and crackers something fierce! Start a rumor that Obama was going to rename the state, the university, and their sports teams to the

University of Al'Obama Crimson Jihad

and then just kick back and watch the shitstorm. lol

[Tuckerfan]

Dude, you should totally register over there and prod them about this. You know they'll run with the ball once they see the play developing. :D

Dude, I waste too much time on the intarwebs as it is! The last thing I need is another giant time sink.

[MrDibble]

* sends Kaitempi agents to elucidator's house *

myob, you!

[Guinastasia]

Dude, you should totally register over there and prod them about this. You know they'll run with the ball once they see the play developing. :D


PLEASE don't get this thread closed.

At one point, YEARS ago, before I posted here, I actually did post over at FR. They were more tolerant of trolls then. I can't remember what actually got me banned, though.

[Justin_Bailey]

One of them remarked to the other "Yeah! People have vandalized the signs to make it look like Go 'Bama!". I looked at her like she had sprouted horns. "Um, no, that was one of the campaign slogans from the beginning - you know, Gobama? Go, Obama? ". I got a blank stare in return. The stoopid, it burns.

Was "Gobama" really an official campaign slogan?

[Guinastasia]

Assholes-now they're insulting Dan Rooney for supporting Obama. Okay, NOW it's gone too far!

[NinetyWt]

Was "Gobama" really an official campaign slogan? I plead ignorance. At the least, it was a grassroots thing, no?

[phouka]

Dude, you should totally register over there and prod them about this. You know they'll run with the ball once they see the play developing. :D

Also, there's this little rule about not starting board wars.

I mean, we'd totally win if there was one, but we're not supposed to start any.

[Frostillicus]

Also, there's this little rule about not starting board wars.

I mean, we'd totally win if there was one, but we're not supposed to start any.

In fact, we would be greeted as liberators.

[Derleth]

In fact, we would be greeted as liberators.And we're spreading the love of Mudkips. They'll be singing and dancing and charging their lasers in the street when we arrive, and they're never gonna give us up, never gonna let us down, never gonna run around and desert us.

[Guinastasia]

Free Republic: Where the Stupid Never Ends! (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129592/posts)

[Tristan]

And we're spreading the love of Mudkips. They'll be singing and dancing and charging their lasers in the street when we arrive, and they're never gonna give us up, never gonna let us down, never gonna run around and desert us.

shut up, newfag.

:D