Thanks for your help, everyone!

Mike

It was a link from otseng's site.

I did a google search.

world, debate, politics, america, forums were some of the words I used to find this place

Jaime found my Political-isms blog entry and left a note in my guestbook.

Thanks everyone. This is giving me some valuable insite....

Mike

I happened to be searching, using Web Ferret, for a particular article and typed in America's.
Your site was one of many.
Curiosity led me to open the site and I found it was well managed so I joined and posted.
The rest is history.

Regards..........Alan

Google search.

MT

I voted "google ad" in your poll, but then as I clicked the button, I realized it wasn't entirely accurate. I found your site by searching on google. The search phrase I used was "interesting political debate."

Saw your little square ad on Google.

Google search. Key words: political discussion board.

Oh - and I followed the "sponsored link" rather than a search result.

Scully's post

Link from profile of member at the Invision Board community.

I was thinking of making a website that dealt with controversy, and a good friend advised me to see if any other sites were already like that. So here I am.

Actually i was thinking about debating so on google i typed in DEBATE and you were on the list... since i saw the url AMERICAS debate.com i decided to click and well the rest is well you resizing my avitars

I used the keywords: political debate forum
on Google.com
You appeared on the 1st page, about half-way down.

Jaime is my daughter so she told me about it. I want to Thank Jaime and Mike for a job very well done

I'll second that.
Thanks Jaime and Mike!

Wait...I have two moms?!? And I've never been in a sitcom? Bummer

I've just submitted this thread as a pilot. Good luck!

Jaime <gets down on her knee> Not having any children of my own, I would like to propose to be your second mom, if I can have Momof3's blessing.

Now, please clean your room before the sitcom people get here. We wouldn't want them to think that we are human or anything crazy like that.

Shoot, nobody has seen our bumper stickers yet.

Maybe I'll just go stick them all around town...

Mike

Jaime and I go way back and so when her and Mike started this site I was one of the first to jump on board. . .cause I'm always on the pulse of all things hip and cool! sarcasm alert

-Kisov

I found it by doing a search for political forums. I needed a place to vent my moral outrage. Thanks guys.

Cyan you have my Blessings to be Jaime's second Mom. I have two more kids. Want them too??

Just teasing Jaime.

I typed in "Political debate fourms" in Yahoo.com

I like debating political stuff with people from around so i joined several sites

Google search: political debate forums

I was looking for information on the drug war (using search.cometsystems.com) and found a link to the debate on the drug war. that was in the weeee hours of the morning.

Just like everybody else it seems: google search - debate boards

Google search American political debate were among the key words.

Some loser I know told to go to it.

A member on my site, scullyspost, told me about this forum. I drop by occasionally, but like Jamie and Mike, running a site keeps you very busy.

I was browsing some random forum, don't remember where, and someone posted this as a new place for political debates.

Same here. Someone posted a link on another forum I frequent.

May I ask which forums?

(Glad you're all here, btw )

Everlore Off-Topic Main Hall (An EverQuest forum, the non-EQ section).

I found my way to "America's Debate" through the AOL/Google search engine. I had just recently finished reading some works by Gore Vidal and a columnist, Steven Levendosky. Finding myself interested in foreign policies and various agendas of certain people in our government, I did a search, I believe, for "American imperialism." The link it provided me took me to the topic "Is American Empire Building?" (started by Alan Wood) and having read interesting assessments I wanted to provide my own views. Since the rest of the site was equally intriguing... well, here I am!

I got a link through the same place as Izzy.

OK, looks like I get the prize for weirdest/geekiest way of finding the site. I was looking for a new host for my own website, and America's Debate was listed as a showcase customer site at Burton Hosting. I did choose Burton, so I guess you could say I'm a neighbor.

Someone on the Democratic Underground mentioned it. Since I couldn't post in their forum (being both a non-democrat, and extremely honest) I thought I'd visit here. It beats DU handsdown, BTW!

I am a veteran/warrior from Arianna Online originally. I actually stumbled upon this forum shortly after it was founded as I was looking for a safe haven for a band of disgruntled Arianna posters. I book marked the site and continued my travels. My weary friends in the meantime and started two forums and I have been posting at those sites for several months now. My friend and ex-Arianna resident , Wertz also had located this site and was quite satisfied. I recently dusted off that bookmark and decided to take a road trip! I am here to visit my friend Wertz in his new digs!!! This has evolved into quite a class act. The guidelines and rules are a bit daunting at first, especially after matriculating in past less administrated situations. Looking forward to checking things out.

You have bumper stickers?

I began using the company "Intranet" at work, before the Internet existed. I was accustomed to using the computer for E-mail, research, record keeping, etc.

I am misanthropic by nature. It's a bit after 4:00 am as I write this. This is a far more typical time for me to be awake than 10:00 am. I can relax and know that if the phone rings in the middle of the night, it's merely an emergency and not a creditor or salesman.

For years, I was able to use our home computer to write, keep books, or play the occasional game of Solitaire or minesweeper. Then my brother-in-law purchased a PC, and introduced my wife to a role playing game. In order to have a computer to use when she is home, I had to purchase a second computer.

I'm not certain how my wife found this site, but it has given her an outlet to have a conversation with someone other than our daughter and me, and she kept saying to me, "Listen to this." or "You've got to read this."

Eventually I had to try to reply. (Yes AuthorMusician, we did have advance notice that Japan planned to bomb Pearl Harbor. My next door neighbor told the President, after the emperor told him. I tried to reply, but that thread was closed.)

Now, I find that if I am going to be able to use my computer again on a regular basis, I am going to have to solve the problem of "How do I network the two computers together so that we both have access to the DSL line?"

Welcome, Curmudgeon!

A cable/DSL router, like the Linksys BEFSR-41 (probably the most popular model, and which I use), a couple of lengths of CAT5 (or better) ethernet cable, and a 10/100 ethernet adapter for each computer (if you don't already have them) will do the trick.

I was told about America's Debate by someone who was posting in the now-legendary Legalizing Prostitution thread.

Then I told another two or three folks about the site. You know who you are.

I used to post at nonviolence.org, but the people there weren't, well, the best debaters. They pretty much said "haha, I'm right because I say so." Due to this little "situation," I looked for another site and came up w/ this, and am quite satisfied.

I was on a vision quest in the Amazonian jungle. I had gone without food for days; I took occasional sips from my canteen. I was starting to feel light-headed. I was trying to "find myself." Instead I eventually collapsed. I was found face down on a fire ant mound by the secretive (and diminutive) Iklaangi people, who took me in, nursed me back to health, and eventually adopted me into their tribe.

Two years later, I could hardly remember English any more. One day as I wandered, looking for some delicious tubers, I heard a strange sound. I followed my ears, and soon I came to a waterfall. The sound seemed to be coming from inside the waterfall! I stepped through the curtain of water and found a tunnel. I followed its serpentine path for about 500 yards. It opened into a paradisical valley. There were fountains of whiskey! There was a wicked cool water slide! And best of all, a huge party was going on! Mike and Jaime were the hosts. Mike introduced himself, then gave me a very strange look. I was reminded of my time spent in the deserts of Mexico with the nagual, Don Juan.

Mike said, "You are Quarkhead. Shuck off your false identity and join us. We are Amazon's Debate, a tribe of happy, intelligent people!"

So I joined. Eventually, the jungle was clear cut, and we had to relocate to America.

Or maybe I just googled my way here, I don't really remember...

ROFL. Quark, how absolutely funny! Thanks for that laugh.

Very creative!

My first forums site was origionally a gaming site, in which had a couple topics about politics in the US and the war on terrorism and iraq...

I am a big political person, and I was making alot of political topics, but I kept getting slammed because of it... the game site mostly being a Europian community, thereby didn;'t share same views, and was mostly ppl who didn't like America.

I felt underapreciated for my work and things, I used yahoo search engine to find this site, typed in "politics forums America", and I came acrossed this site.

I'm already enjoying it here, i intend to stay

I dont remember the keywords but whatever I searched for landed me in a particular topic of debate...I proceeded to look over the rest of the messageboard thereafter. The seach engine was Google.

Yep.....this is how I found it too....