Welcome!Thank you for the membership. I have been a luurker for quire some time.
Welcome!Thank you for the membership. I have been a luurker for quire some time.
Welcome aboard.Hi there!
up until recently i would have labeled myself a liberal. I wasnt too happy about 2016 but i wasnt one of those screamers and criers. I was younger and dumber wasnt in to the electoral college and all that. In 4 short years I went from lib to conservative. i believed all the stuff on the news hated fox all that but I am a patriot and as a child I considered myself one. The thing I cared about the most is the constitution and upholding it. When that started coming into question I stopped listening to msm and just started going to the source. Learning everything the current admin was doing and how much better my life was getting. cancel culture was violence towards free speech and It was blm turning full on bolshevik that made me walk away from anything dnc. Now instead of slamming trump on twitter I'm on parler talking about all the things they dont want you to see and hoping to instill some patriotic duty on those sitting on the fence about what to do.
in other words, happy to have been directed here.
Hello GaloutofdixieHi Folks, and welcome![]()
Well you occasionally still have those screaming, poop flinging fits....But your much better!Egregious1, I spent half my life as a left coast liberal. I can relate.
Welcome to all the new folks. Strap in and hang on, it gets bumpy from here.
The fits may have decreased, but my temper has grown much shorter (sigh)
Fortunately, all I normally do is bitch at people rather than booting them. (Notice that Sat's Banhammer has been essentially silent for several years now? THAT'S just odd...)
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My account now lists 102 or some such messages. Does that mean I might now be allowed wider access on this forum?As part of our enhanced board security procedures, we are now requiring all new members to check in and let us know you are here by posting to this or any other thread within 1 week of registration.
Every Friday evening, we will purge all members who have been registered for more than 1 week but have never posted.
Since we no longer allow non-posting members, this "check-in" post may serve as your one and only post if you simply want to be a registered "lurker".
But don't be just a lurker!
Everyone has something to contribute!
BEFORE you post your first post, please read the Rules for Posting that are at the top of just about every page on this board.
By posting your first post in here or on any other thread, you signify that you HAVE read the Rules for Posting.
Thanks, and welcome to Timebomb2000!
Kris
Edit to add:
I just want to caution everyone that we have a lot of new members, many of which are long-time lurkers who have been around as long or longer than many of us. They are just as much a part of this board and their posts, now that they have "de-cloaked" so to speak, are just as valuable as any of us oldtimers' posts.
That being said...
The flip side of that coin is that the only way we "know" people is by their posting history...
Regardless of how long you have been lurking and how much you feel like you know all of us and wish to now contribute (and we DO welcome such contributions), please keep in mind that we don't "know" you...yet.
And please bear with us until we DO get to know you a little better.
As many of you know, we have recently come through a difficult time on the board. We HAVE had some "hit-and-run" troublemakers and trolls who just love to toss out some heated or controversial tidbit and watch the fur fly.
Keep in mind that WE (the mods and admins and the other members) cannot easily tell the difference between a recently de-cloaked, long-time, sincere lurker turned poster and a "hit and run" troll looking to stir up trouble.
Please bear that in mind if some of us appear rather sensitive to certain posts in this time of tremendous sensitivity and uncertainty and potential dis-information.
I hope you new members with relatively few posts under your belt can understand that the rest of us cannot readily assume ANYTHING about any poster with relatively few posts.
Like it or not, in this medium, you earn your stripes via your posts...so please DO post and let us get to know you through your contributions but PLEASE do not take offense if we question, ask for further clarification, evidence, links, etc.
I hope this came out like I intended it...
Kris
Yes, you now have access to the Bomb Shelter.My account now lists 102 or some such messages. Does that mean I might now be allowed wider access on this forum?
Thanks much for your kind reply & action.Yes, you now have access to the Bomb Shelter.
WelcomeHi, tried to join several times, tech level just above the amish. Lurked for year. Terrific forum, wealth of info. In Northern Mi. Reasonably safe area, but stuck with an evil communist governor. God bless you all
Welcome!Hi, tried to join several times, tech level just above the amish. Lurked for year. Terrific forum, wealth of info. In Northern Mi. Reasonably safe area, but stuck with an evil communist governor. God bless you all
And on my birthday, no less. Welcome!Checking in. First post. Glad to be here.