Hmm Free Republic has been down at least the past 4 hours

[alp227]

See this status site http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/freerepublic.com.html

Because the following pings at Pacific Time returned nothing:
23.May.2013 18:10 0 ms.
23.May.2013 20:12 0 ms.
23.May.2013 22:15 0 ms.

and their yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/messages/46831

A comment on "Is It Down Right Now": "RimJob, the owner of FreeP, brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year of "donations" to run his site. He and his family pocket 95% of it. Rimmy provides a website uglier than Drudge with 1995 technology."

And: "OOHH dear lord freemoneyforjimsrepublic is down ......... first a tornado slicin and dicin through the bibbledribble belt and now this , praise the lord , not that one exists."

[XemaSab]

1. Probably the earthquake knocked the hamster wheel off its tracks

[AverageJoe90]

3. well.....

Or maybe the giant methane release Malcolm Light predicted melted his server. Or maybe the Bilderberg/Zionist/Masonic/Satanist conspiracy decided to order one of their minions to download a trojan on to his system. Or maybe Obama's "Chicago Thugs" trashed the "data center" he claims to be going to.....LOL, who knows what wacky scenario he's thinking up.

[octoberlib]

2. Did you see this one?

Bad news jimrob May 23, 2013
9:38 pm
Something is down on our front end. Can't reach it at all, not even with our maintenance system. John may have to drive up to the data center to fix. If so,...


'drive up to the data center" ? Jimrob is full of shit. I think he does this to bring in more donations.

[AverageJoe90]

4. Haha, probably is.

He's pulled stunts like this before, too, dishonest turdball that he is, and always was.

[octoberlib]

7. Yep. I believe he did, not too long ago.

[Katashi_itto]

17. I like him. He's an honest reflection of what Conservatives are all about..grift.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

31. heh. an honest thief.

That is the GOP in a nutshell.

[VanillaRhapsody]

5. He means "drive his Big Wheel

to the store to get more Cheetohs and PBR!"

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. I found it!

Behold, the Free Republic "Data Center"..

[octoberlib]

8. Bwahaha!

I wonder if they share that with Drudge.

[HillWilliam]

25. It's only missing that little crescent-moon cutout

over the door for ventilation.

[PD Turk]

10. I don't doubt that

I don't doubt he can't reach something that is down on his front end.... I'm sure he hasn't even seen it in decades

[Warren DeMontague]

16. "something is down on our front end"

Oh, lord, please. Please don't make it so easy.

[LondonReign2]

33. That dude is going to break his bat

if that is how he swings through the strikezone

[dlwickham]

9. ~17 hours 11 minsDown

looks like someone didn't pay the electric bill

[BainsBane]

11. the Obama prom photo pushed them over the edge

into meltdown.

[chillfactor]

12. Anonymous? nt

[Monk06]

13. Check this out.........

Test
Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:54:54 PM · by Jim Robinson · 5 replies
up?

He asks if his site is working by posting a question on his own site.

Hey RimJob, I think it's working.

[sakabatou]

14. The hamster died.

[n2doc]

19. yep

(it was just playing dead to get a raise in its food quota)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. Damn socialist hamster. nt

[Fearless]

15. It's back.

Like herpes it never really goes away.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

18. Every time I read these posts

It's down.

It's apparent that it's a shitty site, both in content and availability.

I understand the need to see what they are saying, but we do contribute to their advertising dollars when we do. The guy is a fat bum who collects disability (not that that's wrong) and then rails against others who do.

Who gives a fuck about that piece of shit. Why do we care? I see this bullshit every few months and it only gives him more traffic. We need to figure out who we are, it seems, from what I read here. Some of us would be quite comfortable posting over there.

[sakabatou]

21. They're trying to collect money for they're site that looks like shit.

We have donation drives which last 2 weeks at most, only 4 times a year and out site looks clean as a whistle. Does Rimjob not give a fuck anymore?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. Schadenfreude is fun.

Admit it.

[MrMickeysMom]

20. Awww...

It's kinda cute how they call each other "FRiend"

[FSogol]

22. I knew it was a mistake for them to put their server on the I-5 bridge.

[rdharma]

23. There must be something seriously wrong in Freeperville!

Those poor little RW nut jobs have had a really bad week.

Phony scandals are going nowhere, they're up in arms about the new BSA policy on gays, now the Freeperland site is down!

How are they going to give voice to their impotent bigoted rage?!!!!

[Jamaal510]

24. Obama's fault.

[LadyHawkAZ]

26. Are they out of AA batteries again?

There's a sale at BigLots.

[chknltl]

29. Someone's mom finally put her foot down and made someone clean up the basement.

Well if you are not paying rent......

All those twinkie wrappers, pizza boxes and autographed copies of Sarah Palin's book needed to go! The website returned after the mess was put out on the curb. A passerby poking a stick in the rubble discovered an angry fat gerbil wearing what appeared to be a tiny space suit with the name Lemiwinks written on it.

[Roland99]

30. Guess the replacement parts finally showed up >>>>

[Catherine Vincent]

32. It's been known for years about the money

And apparently the posters that send their money in don't mind so...

[HooptieWagon]

34. Every once in a while, a poster questions...

...why maintainence is so bad, and upgrades non-existent. They are quickly banned.

[KamaAina]

35. It was probably because of the Google outage.

Same thing at DU. The main page wouldn't load because it was "Waiting for www.google-analytics.com" or some other Google site like YouTube. I started a topic on this in ATA.

By the way, this is the third widespread Google outage in a month.

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

36. We all know what this means....

Their "revolution" has begun!!!1

[sarisataka]

37. Funny

I didn't notice

[Spirochete]

38. Maybe they're upgrading the software...

Yeah, right

[lpbk2713]

39. What again?

Must be that 1990 vintage Packard Bell server is acting up again.

[Dawson Leery]

40. Jimmy needs more $$$$$$$$$$.

[Daniel537]

41. I know conservatives are old-fashioned

but good god man, update that ugly ass website.

[Rex]

42. He hired this guy as his new head of security.

Rimjob has no clue about IIS, so hired a security guard from Wal-Mart. Hilarious cascade failure ensues.