As long as they continue to get all their information from talk radio, the Moonie Times and Rupert Murdoch, life is simple and monochromatic... and then you come along with all these evil complications. And so they purple with rage and demand to know, why can't you just accept what Big Brother wants you to know... and be one of us... one of us... one of us...

A couple of weekends ago I was spammed by the freeper rag NewsMax.com. They were selling a pack of "Hillary Clinton Attrocity" cards, you know, like the Iraqi Deck of Demons, in protest of Clinton's book.

I put on my hazmat suit and looked at NewsMax's, and sure enough, the spam matched up with NewsMax's marketing.

It seems they planned on selling more packs of "Hillary" cards than Ms. Clinton's book.

So much for that plan.

Oh, and for your scary patriotic tat collection: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2003/n05232003_200305236.html

Someone gave up a vacation in Europe for that... sad really.

The glamour wore off Europe when a friend told me he'd roadtripped from Paris to Vienna for a Warhammer convention. As I said, "You get special geek points for that."

I can see the family saying, "damn, but that strong Euro is gonna cut into the vacation budget. Let's see the Grand Canyon instead, and bank the money until the dollar recovers."

But their rationale was, "Europe bad. US good. Let's build a Nuremberg-level prop and drive around the country showing what a bunch of sheep-shagger, er, freepi we are!"

Of course, if we leave, they're doomed. They'll no longer be able to blame crop failures on US involvement in the Middle East peace process, and they won't be able to blame the double-wide getting blown away in a tornado on Hillary Clinton. Again, I ALMOST feel sorry for them.

So yeh, I'd buy a used car from that man. (And have.)

And that ain't no bull!

Regarding Bush II.... reincarnation of Savonarola maybe?

On a conservative livejournal community I belong to (yes, I know, but it has a good guy running it and debate sometimes rises to a civilised level) the freepi were rejoicing.

Because why? Because HARRY POTTER had knocked Hilary Clinton's biography off the top of the bestseller list....

Conservative government uses terrorist threat to curb civil liberties and purge political opponents in the interest of preserving class and racial privilege. Oppressed people react with civil disobedience and violent attacks against property.

And five million people bought the book the first day ...

I don't know if it was the same Diving Mules act, but that was the highlight of a few Broome County Fairs back home (the fairgrounds are in my home town). There was a lone protestor who showed up every morning and stood in front of the gates with a sign saying "Diving Mules are Un-American."

The next year, the mules were replaced with a diving human act-- a guy would come out in a cape, set fire to the cape, then dive into a big tank of water. One of the members of the Fair Committee rented a mule for the week, and tied it to a post out in front of the gates with a sign reading "Diving Flaming Humans are Un-American."

Every now and then you find a redneck with a good sense of humor...

Hm. Perhaps I should drink my coffee before attempting poesy.

In this case, I believe (and will no doubt be corrected if I am wrong) that it's a reference to a conservative website called "Free Republic", whose authors, fans, forum participants, etc. annoy many on the left in the same visceral way that Hillary Clinton annoys...well, freepers.

Alternate, apocryphal coinage: The Fellowship to Re-elect the President.

Anway, "freeper" and "frappee" shre the same set of consonants.... perhaps a freeper is someone who goes around beating up on other people.

No, they go around in a froth. There are people who really like being mad, and go out of their way to be offended. Freepers are a subgroup.

This is the Ford dealership that was giving away a free shotgun with the purchase of a pickup truck. You can't get any more redneck than that, even in a Jeff Foxworthy routine.

"This is the Ford dealership that was giving away a free shotgun with the purchase of a pickup truck. You can't get any more redneck than that, even in a Jeff Foxworthy routine."

But, but, but, what about the dawg? The pickup truck needs both the shotgun hanging in the rear window (are the ropes/wires included?) AND the dog, as proper accessories!

Some places I have lived, you can have them installed on your new pickup by the dealer before you take possession.

Goggling the term turns up a lot of self-labelled freeper websites. From this search, I would suspect that it might emerge from FreeRepublic.com, "The Premier Conservative News Forum."