I miss Fishy and Smudge. Do you? Vote

In reply to both Cat and Crabby...I can ask her to contact you if you like? I can contact her and let her know you are asking about her over here? Out of respect for her privacy I cannot give out her contact info, as it should be of course. :)

Update: I emailed and let her know that folks were asking about her and were having trouble finding a contact button on her site. I also gave her the link to this thread and invited her to come participate if she has notion. :)

Fingers Crossed :)

This is not directed to you personally Cat, but just some additional food for thought, for others.

Sometimes, when persistent enough, we actually get what we want. And after receiving it, it doesn't always turnout to be what we were hoping for. 

To kill any movement before it gets started, is quite simple;

• Create a new site for the old PL members to migrate to, but miss-out on what the old site was really all about. 
• Allow the same select few who clearly helped destroy the PL, through their bullying behavior to manipulate political discussion toward Rand and Rand only, and then let them take hold of your new site on opening day, with the same behavior.
• Then allow the main starting topic of the site, be a horrific cesspool of criticism about someone (MN) who was not only well respected, but very much loved by most, who were still at the PL.
• Allow such criticism to continue without abatement, and chastise only a lonely voice or two, who expressed their outrage, in colorful language (justifiably).    

Yes, I know, these select few, have finally toned it down. They've finally gotten the message. And in their heart of hearts, they all know who they are, and what they've done. BUT, the destructive damage done to this site, has already been done. The site's reputation clearly established.  And when this election cycle ends for Rand Paul, so will be the end of 'A Call to Paul'.

Michael Nystrom, a rather brilliant guy, clearly foresaw the Rand Paul movement would never take hold on a national scale, as the Ron Paul movement did. And above all, he understood why. The DP site was old and worn out, so MN decided to close it down. The DP community, begged him not to. 

He was smart enough to understand if we all wanted stay connected as a community, we had to move PAST the Pauls'. He discussed this openly with us all. Being a great guy, and sympathetic to the Rand Paul folks, he created the PL with a special Rand tab for the Rand Paul folks. But, oh no, this was NOT good enough for this select few. They wanted the whole political discussion to be about Rand, and Rand only. And they pushed and pushed, heckled and heckled, until they broke MN will to continue.  

Anyone who brought up Carson, Cruz, Trump, etc etc, where heckled to death. Well, the truth is, the end results are, you folks got what you wanted, and it's a kind of lonely place here, isn't it.  

Time, ALWAYS tells the truth. And simply put; 'IF' the PL was really all about true-blue Rand Paul folks only, this very site would be flourishing by now, wouldn't it? But it wasn't ALL about Rand Paul, as most here are finally realizing. 

And to Anne I say; it's too bad you didn't finish this site eight months ago, when you first started it, so all the Rand Paul folks could have to flocked here back then. Who knows, just maybe, the PL might still be operational, and flourishing in a different liberty direction, as envisioned by MN!

REMEMBER: It is wise, to be very careful, of what you wish for, because you might just get it!     

And that's ok.  However, if content isn't as varied as someone would like then they need to log in and add to the conversation. 

We have had to date approx 375 sign ups and 4 of those in the last 24 hrs.   So we are still slowly expanding. 

I'd say a good 90% seem to have no problem at all, but about 10% of you all end up with difficulty accepting automatic emails from this site.  Yahoo in particular has blackballed my site as spam because when we started a few weeks ago we had a huge influx of sign ups and some sites thought our automatic email system was some sort of spam.   So, I've had to go try to get that label reversed.  Yahoo is one of the hold outs that I still get email rejected back to me.  I'm looking to install Site Verification Module which may help. 

What I've been doing in the meantime is personally emailing anyone who seems to be having trouble and resetting their passwords to something more permanent until they take the time to change it. 

Passwords you get from an automated message are for one time only and so you have to set a permanent password before you sign out the first time. 

If anyone is having trouble at all, email me at anne@acalltopaul.com and if your email matches the one on file with your user name I will send you a new password and help iron out any issues.

I really am sorry if anyone is having trouble

We've been up three weeks and I'm still ironing out problems and configuring new areas.  I'll write a more detailed post of my plans for new areas and growth in a day or so, just so everyone knows what's up and what's commin

You guys are great!  And I certainly welcome any reports of bugs, troubles or constructive criticisms.  We'll get to where we wanta go eventually :o)

I have had the same difficulty with the 'log in- log-out' thing, so I just stay logged in. But I too recognized the style of Smudge Pot (aka Hot Dog Guy) and User 1. There seems today to be some varied information, and not just Rand news, I presume people post what is 'hot' so if Rand is the hot news, he gets the press.